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3. What is forgery or not on acts of Congress.

4. What is forgery or not on Massachusetts statutes.
5. American decisions as to forgery on the statutes, &c.

6. Indictment and evidence.

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5. Several English cases as to what is larceny or not, at common law.

6. Special property, how larceny may be of it.

7. Robbery, what is robbery or not.

8. What is a felonius taking from the person.

9. Who are robbers.

10. Indictment and evidence.

11. Certain expressions in our statutes, as, with intent to steal, felonious intent, felonious taking and carrying away personal goods of another, explained by late decisions.

12. Other such expressions so explained, as, putting in fear, force and violence, from the person of another.

CHAPTER CCXV.

MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER.

Art. 1. What is murder or not.

2. To kill an officer in the execution of his office is murder.

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Art. 3. Ex necessitate killing, &c.

4. Indictments and evidence.

5. Rape.

6. Sodomy.

7. Several crimes.

CHAPTER CCXVII.

CRIMINAL CASES, PLEADINGS IN.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Complaint, and notes.

3. Warrant, &c. arrest, backing of, sc. form of.

CHAPTER CCXVIII.

INDICTMENTS.

Art. 1. Indictments, generally.

2. Where does an indictment lie, many cases.

3. Where an indictment lies not.

4. The Grand Jury.

5. Caption of an indictment.

6. Joint and several.

7. The body of the indictment.

8. Bad language.

9. Name and addition of indictee.

10. Time.

11. Place or venue.

12. Description of the person killed.

13. Technical words.

14. Contra formam statuti.

15. Other points relating to indictments.

CHAPTER CCXIX.

PLEADINGS IN INFORMATIONS.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Where an information lies.

3. Where an information does not lie.

4. Proceedings in informations.

5. Coroner's inquisition.

6. Massachusetts statutes as to these inquisitions.

7. The force and effect of this inquisition.

CHAPTER CCXX.

PLEADINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES.

Art. 1. Process of commitment.

Art. 2. Warrant of commitment.

3. Conclusion of this warrant, habeas corpus.
4. Contempt, process of.

5. English cases of contempt, process, &c.
6. American cases of process of contempt.

7. Process of outlawry.

8. General principles.

9. The principles of the act of 1782 noticed. 10. English decisions.

11. Other disabilities.

12. Process, &c. in Virginia în criminal cases.

CHAPTER CCXXI.

PLEADINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES.

Art. 1. Pleas.

2. Demurrers.

3. General issue.

4. Challenge and trial.

5. Challenges for cause.

6. Challenges to the polls.

7. Trials in criminal causes.

8. Attainder and conviction.

9. Summary convictions.

10. Evidence in the deft's. presence.

11. Evidence how received.

12. Curses, &c. uttered, ought to be stated.

13. Exceptions and provisions in statutes.

14. Judgments and adjudication.

15. Attainder.

16. Other cases, &c.

17. Judgments, &c. arresting judgment.

CHAPTER CCXXI.

IMPEACHMENTS.

Art. 1. Constitutional articles.

2. Impeachment of Judge Chase.

3. His written answer.

4. Acts of Congress cited.

5. The opinion of the court as to treason.

6. Specified charges.

7. The court's power over the evidence.

8. Must the offence, to be impeachable, be indictable.

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Art. 9. Must it, to be impeachable, be an offence against some known

law.

10. Indictment against Callender how far good.

11. As to matter in issue.

12. Articles of the impeachment; several matters.

13. As to capias and summons on State laws being necessary in

Federal courts or not.

14. State laws how a rule of decision in Federal courts.

15. As to political charges, &c. made by judges.

16. Several other points in Chase's cause.

17. Challenges of jurors.

18. Constitutionality of a statute.

19. Judges decide what the law is, what is murder, &c.

20. Seditious charges.

21. A judge of probate impeached and removed from office.

CHAPTER CCXXIII.

STATUTE TITLES IN SEVERAL STATES, OR TITLES UNDER STATUTES ENACTED IN THE RESPECTIVE STATES, RESPECTING DEEDS AND CONVEYANCES, WILLS, DESCENTS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND SETTLEMENTS OF ESTATES, &C.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. New Hampshire, (Massachusetts at large in former chapters.) 3. Vermont.

4. Rhode Island.

5. Connecticut.

6. New York.

7. New Jersey.
8. Pennsylvania.
9. Delaware.

10. Maryland.

11. Virginia.

12. North Carolina.

13. South Carolina.

14. Georgia.

15. Kentucky.

16. Louisiana.

17. Other and new states settled under the ordinance of Congress of July 1787, &c. as Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, &c. &c. and deriving titles from one and the same source, the principles established by the said ordinance, &c. &c.

18. Statutes, titles, &c. in Columbia and other Federal districts.

CHAPTER CCXXIV.

SEIZURES IN REVENUE AND OTHER CASES.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Common law principles.

3. Statutes enacting forfeitures and authorizing seizures.

4. Mitigation, &c. of fines, penalties, &c. in Federal revenue

cases.

5. Embargo acts.

6. Armed vessels illegally fitted out, liable to be forfeited and

seized.

7. Judicial decisions as to seizures in revenue cases.

8. Judicial decisions as to seizures, in embargo and nonintercourse, nonimportation and nonexportation cases.

9. Seizures for trading with an enemy, using his licenses. 10. Seizures of armed vessels fitted out against law. 11. Several cases, how forfeitures affect innocent persons. 12. General rules of proceeding in case of seizures. 13. Blockades, restraints, &c.

CHAPTER CCXXV.

FEDERAL PRINCIPLES, AND CASES IN EQUITY.

Art. 1. Uniform system of equity lately originating in the United States. 2. Our American charters, constitutions, and statutes relating to equity.

3. Federal statutes in relation to equity.

4. A sketch of equity powers in England, as exercised in the modern courts of equity.

5. General principles or rules in equity as to performing contracts.

6. Federal jurisdiction in equity.

7. Power to correct mistakes in contracts or not.

8. How a court of equity looks beyond the legal title.

9. Who holds in trust for others, or by absolute title to his own

use.

10. How the plt. in equity must be able, specifically, to perform his part of the contract.

11. Defects in the quality of property sold or contracted to be sold, &c. in cases of equity.

CHAPTER CCXXVI.

PLEADINGS IN EQUITY.

Art. 1. Pleadings in equity; general principles.

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