Commons, 656.

Communion of goods, 158.
Compulsory admittance, 644.
Computation of time, 288.
Comyns' Digest, 53.

Concessit, fine sur, 571.

Conclusion of deeds, 499.

merger of simple, in deed,
ib.

by corporations, ib.
by idiots, 480.
by infants, 481.
by insane persons,
480.

by married women,
481, 565.

by matter of record,
512, 622.
by tenants in tail,
565.

by the crown, 625.
of copyholds, 640.
origin of, 165.
practice as to pre-
paring, 491, n.
to uses to bar dower,
281.

under the statute of

Copyhold, estate tail in, 633.
execution against, 638.
extinguishment of, 226,
n., 639.

fines, heriots, &c. in,
227, 635.

forfeiture of, 227, 635.
for life or years, 632.
free bench in, 634.

liability of, to payment

of debts, 638.

licence to demise, 640.
mortgage of, 645.

of inheritance, 226, 633.
partition of, 349, n.
quit rents in, 635, 684.
rents of assize in, ib.
surrender of, 641, 642.
title to, 640.

waste committed on, 634.

Copyholders, formerly villeins, 224.
Cornage, tenure by, 205.

Corodies, 656, 657, n.

Deed or escrow, 503.
poll, 489.

premises in, 491.
reading of, 500.
recitals in, 492.
reddendum in, 493.
registration of, 621.
release of, 507.
requisites of, 489.
sealing of, 500.
signing of, ib.
stamps on, 490.
tenendum in, 492.

to declare or lead uses of fine

or recovery, 582.
voluntary, 506.
warranty in, 494.
where requisite, 487.
witnesses to a, 503.
Defeasance, deed of, 535.
Deforciant, 571.

De la plus belle, dower, 276.
Delivery of a deed, 502.
De Mercatoribus, statute, 316.
Demesne lands, 219.

seisin in, 239.
Demise, 521, 523-see LEASE.
Demi-vills, 129.

Democracy, 32.

Denizen, 443.

Descent, in copyholds, 226, 632,

640.

in feuds, 184.

Inheritance Act, 393.
origin of, 167.

or purchase, 388.
paternal line preferred,
415, 417.
per stirpes, 409.
per capita, 410.
preference of males, 405.
rules (or canons) of, prior
to 1st January,
1834..394, n.
since 1st January,
1834.. 394-427.

special cases of, 428.
Tables of, 394, 429.
traced to lineal ancestry,

412.

traced from person last
entitled, as if he had
been the purchaser,
when, 429, 439.
traced on failure of male
paternal line, how, 418.

Detached parts of counties, 131, n.
Determination of estates at will, 296.
Devise, 596-621.

attestation of, 604, 606.
by married women, 602, n.
by virtue of a power, 615.
construction of, 609-617.
executory, 619.

is in nature of a declaration
of uses, 618.
lapsed, 613.
meaning of "dying without

issue," &c. in, 616.
must be in writing, &c.,
598, 601, 604.
of a fee, without words of
inheritance, 611, 612.
of "all my lands and tene-
ments, where it in-
cludes lease for years,
615.
of customary freeholds,
230, n.

particular points of con-
struction in, under new
Will Act, 611-617.
power to, 599, 600, 602.

Discontinuance of estate tail, 249,
n., 469, 519, n.
Disparagement of ward, 198.
Displacement of reversion, &c.,
322, 469, 519.
Dispunishable for waste, 263.
Disseisin, 319, 519.
Distress, 682, 686.

Districts, ecclesiastical, 126.
Divesting reversion, &c., 322,
519, n.
Divine law, 24.

service, tenure by, 232.
Divisions of counties, 131, n.

Divorce, effect of on dower, 273.
Doctor and Student, treatise known

as, 53.

Dom-Boc of Alfred, 43, 44.
Domesday Book, 187.

Don, grant, et render, fine sur,

571.