law. 
Diet and apparel (see Sumptuary Laws),
  laws concerning soon repealed,
Direct legislation (see Referendum),
  nominations;
  primaries;
  elections;
  taxes (see Taxation). 
Discharge, reason of, must be stated by employer. 
Discrimination, unlawful under early common law;
  modern view of;
  by the “trusts”;
  the Elkins law against;
  in ordinary trade;
  against localities by trusts. 
Divine right, asserted by King James. 
Divorce, chapter concerning, chapter XVII;
  jurisdiction over first in church;
reform movement discussed (see Marriage and Divorce);
  equal rights of husband and wife;
  causes for to both sexes alike;
  statistics discussed;
  in most cases given to the wife;
  whether innocent or not;
  in England not to the wife for adultery alone;
  for desertion and failure to support;
  reforms in legislation;
  reforms in procedure, preferable;
  causes now existing;
  meaning of cruelty, cause for divorce;
  uniformity of law in;
  statute for reform of divorce procedure;
  commissioners created by States;
  effect of in other States;
  law formerly appertained to the church;
  history of in the past;
  earliest in 1642;
  first general law that of Massachusetts Bay;
  corespondents may appear and made defence;
  crime made cause for;
  neglect cause for;
  advertising;
  remarriage after divorce usually permitted;
  should be absolute;
  unchastity the cause if before marriage;
  government reports upon;
  in European countries. 
Doctors’ commons lasted until the nineteenth century. 
Dog, or cat, why usually kept on ships
Dogberry, speech to the watch, based on the statute of Winchester. 
Dogger, statute of;
  dogger fish, trade in regulated;
  regrating of dogger fish forbidden;
  storage and preservation;
  must be sold before night. 
Domestic labor, no regulation of. 
Dorr, rebellion. 
Double standard in divorce matters;
  in matters of ordinary morality. 
Double taxation (see Taxes). 
Double trading, and department stores. 
Dower right, recognized in Magna Charta;
  in American legislation. 
Drainage (see Irrigation), laws for usual in the South and West. 
Drains and irrigation. 
Drill companies (see Military Companies). 
Droit d’aubaine. 
Drugs (see Pure Food Laws). 
Drunkenness, first punished by law in 1606;
  other laws against;
  in U.S. 
Due process of law, under Magna Charta;
  principle may include immunity from self-incrimination. 
Duties (see Imports), first upon wool in Westminster I;
  General nature of;
  early revenue laws prohibitive not protective, hence tariffs for
    protection, not for revenue alone, are constitutional;
  “new” customs forbidden in