Life insurance,
must be given the negro on the same terms as the white;
of children forbidden.
Lilleshall case cited.
Limitations, statute of,
for prosecutions for crime, dates from 1509.
Limited liability (see Corporation).
Liquor (see Prohibition),
interstate commerce in; (see Intoxicating Liquor).
Litigation,
early, always by way of justification.
Lobbying,
laws against (see Bribery);
acts.
Local option (see Intoxicating Liquor).
Local self-government preserved in municipal law.
London dock case.
London, liberties and customs of recognized in Magna Charta;
laws of relating to labor;
statute of, customs of, 1285.
“Long and short haul clause” (see Rates).
Looms, engrossing forbidden.
Loss of service laws.
Ludlow Company, strike at.
Lynching,
State or county liable for;
civil damages for;
law of.
Machine politics, entrenched by regulation of.
Magna Charta, chapter concerning,
chapter II, marks the complete restoration
of Anglo-Saxon liberties;
sworn to in the coronation oath;
taxation clause;
history of the grants of by King John;
of Henry III omits taxation clauses;
confirmed more than thirty times by later
kings;
history of the grant of by Henry III;
important clauses of;
of John further discussed;
to be read twice a year in every cathedral;
to be interpreted in the courts as is
the American Constitution,
under the new ordinances of
1311;
never published in French;
causes of.
Maintenance, statutes against.
Majority, powers of, not unlimited.
Malice in conspiracy (see Conspiracy).
Manufacture of cloth regulated by statute.
Margins, sales on forbidden.
Marine law (see Sea).
Market towns, regulation of tolls in.
Markets, citizens of London forbidden to trade in.
Marlborough, statute of.
Marriage (see also Miscegenation),
jurisdiction over first in church;
is a sacrament by Roman view;
creates a status;
not a mere contract at common law;
forbidden between English and Irish;
religious ceremony first dispensed with
under Cromwell;
between first cousins invalid in Pennsylvania;
modern legislation;
may be forbidden to parties of different
races;
discussion of the common-law marriage;
now abolished in New York;
the ceremony;
chapter concerning, chapter XVII, lawfulness
of, determined by law of
State;
law of formerly appertained to the church;
in some States a simple contract;
when void because of age;
when void because of failure of parents
to consent, restriction of by
modern statute;
between near relations;
of insane persons void;