Commerce, legislation concerning, (see Interstate Commerce,
Trade). 
Commissions and tips forbidden;
  government by commission (see Boards, Administrative Law). 
Common law,
  enforcement of;
  contrast with Roman law;
  growth of by court decision;
  effort to restore soon after the conquest;
  as distinct from Roman law;
  as against civil law;
  how far enforced in United States;
  early jealousy of chancery power;
  does not apply in towns of the staple, but the law merchant;
  superiority over statutes;
  prevails in criminal matters;
  self-regardant actions;
  Massachusetts statute declaring. 
Common land. 
Common pleas, court not to follow king’s person. 
Common right shall be done to rich and poor. 
Commons (see House of Commons). 
Commonwealth of England, constitution of. 
Commonwealth vs. Hunt, 4 Met. 111, case of cited. 
Communism, definition of (see Socialism). 
Company stores forbidden;
  so, tenements;
  company insurance. 
Compulsory labor (see Peonage). 
Compurgation, trial by. 
Concealed weapons (see Arms). 
Confirmation of charters. 
Congress, usurpation of powers by. 
Conscience, rights of (see Religion). 
Conscription (see Military Service),
  does not exist among English peoples. 
Consent, age of,
  in rape;
  in marriage;
  the age raised as high as twenty-one;
  in criminal matters. 
Conservation (see Forest Reserves);
  of rivers, dates from statute of Henry VIII. 
Conspiracy,
  first statute against in 1305;
  doctrine first applied to maintaining lawsuits;
  next to combination between mechanics or guilds;
  reason of common law doctrine of;
  definition of;
  determined by intent or ethical purpose;
  early statutes probably declared merely the common law;
  definition of in statute of 1304;
  definition of as evolved in history;
  finally includes intent to injure another person in his liberties as
    well as results actually criminal;
  reason of doctrine of;
  doctrine under common law;
  remedies for;
  combinations necessarily attended with the use of unlawful means;
  unlawful act is the combining, not any action done;
  actual result unimportant;
  intent the question;
  punishment far more severe than for offences done under it;
  always unlawful, may not amount to criminality;
  principle of extended to trades unions and their by-laws;
  of masons, etc., forbidden in 1425;
  against the law or customs of the staple town made criminal in 1333;
  general discussion of law of, chapter XII;
  continuing conspiracies, doctrine of;
  extension of, by new statutes;
  early English law of, discussed with the modern law of combinations;
  to maintain lawsuits;