night work;
general discussion;
child labor prohibited;
age limit;
school certificates, etc.;
educational restrictions;
mines;
dangerous or immoral occupations;
railroads and telegraph;
unsanitary trades;
foreign legislation.
House of Commons, has sole power of taxation;
growth of legislative power (see Parliament).
House of Lords, abolished 1648.
“House of Mirth” at Albany.
Husband and wife, may testify against each other;
contracts between may be regulated;
in divorce matters;
right to guardianship of children;
husband is head of the family;
may fix the abode;
power of mother over children;
duty of the husband to support the wife and children;
they are joint guardians of children;
may be witnesses against each other.
Ice, Massachusetts convention to regulate price of.
Immigration, restriction of by act of Congress.
Immorality made a crime.
Immunity, principle of discussed (see Incriminating
Evidence).
Impeachment, revival of, process for, in 1621.
Imports (see Duties).
Imprisonment for debt, in the law merchant;
forbidden in United States.
Improvements (see Internal Improvements.)
Income tax, history of;
in England;
may be graded.
Incriminating evidence, principle protecting a man
from
self incrimination;
of corporations.
Indeterminate sentences.
Indexes (see Statutes), should be some system
of.
Indians, American, legislation referring to, under
Cromwell;
citizenship;
history of legislation concerning.
Individual rights, legislation relating to, chapter
concerning, chapter
XV.
Individualism, definition of;
in labor matters.
Industrial Commission, United States,
report of on trusts, etc..
Inheritance taxes,
in United States;
in England.
Initiative (see also Referendum).
Injunction (see Riots),
origin of in Jack Cade’s Rebellion;
early use of principle, A.D. 1327;
justices of the peace instituted for;
under Richard II;
repeal of these powers given justices
of the peace the very next
year;
the common law vindicated;
power given to chancellor in Jack Cade’s
case;
jealousy of common law still preserved;
given against the seduction of heiresses;
in labor disputes;
(see also Chancery, Equity Jurisdiction),
government by, may bring on, military
abuses;
misuse of in America.
Injury, to another when not criminal usually not a
legal wrong;
otherwise, if by two or more working together;
to trade, examples of.
Inns and ale houses, tippling at, forbidden under
King James.
Inquisition, constitutional principle against.
Insane persons have no right to marriage.