in labor;
  sexual relation;
  in criminal law;
  their property rights;
  in life-insurance matters;
  their treatment in hotels, jails, etc.;
  their disfranchisement in the South;
  a misdemeanor in South Carolina to serve meals to blacks and whites
    in the same room. 
Negro labor (see Peonage);
  suffrage. 
New ordinance of Edward II enacted 1311, revoked 1322. 
Newspapers, legislation of, relief from libel law. 
New York, constitutional amendment concerning public work. 
Nomination, direct;
  papers. 
Norman law, substantially Roman;
  law brought to England by the Normans. 
Normans, their notion of law;
  of sovereignty;
  murder of (see Englishry). 
Northampton, statute of. 
Northern Securities case
  U.S. 177. 
Norwich tailors, case of, cited. 
Nuisances (see Police Power), modern legislation declaring;
  recent statutes against. 
Nurses, trained, may be privileged. 
Nursing of children by Irish nurses forbidden.

Oath (see Religious Tests). 
Obstruction of mails and interstate commerce. 
Ocean (see Sea). 
Oklahoma, labor legislation of discussed;
  capital of must not be removed under enabling act. 
Old-age pensions, German. 
Oleomargarine, legislation concerning. 
Onslow, Speaker, tells Elizabeth that she is subject to the common law. 
Oppression (see Conspiracy, Boycott), antiquity of. 
Ordeal, trial by abolished by Lateran Council. 
Ordinance (see New Ordinance) of a city. 
Oregon, the effect of the initiative in. 
Organized labor (see Labor Unions). 
Osteopaths, laws concerning;
  statutes permitting practice of. 
Outlawry (see Unwritten Law), early method of enforcing law;
  result of personal enforcement of law when mistaken. 
Output, limitations of, unlawful (see Restraint of Trade,
Trusts).

Parent and child, early control of, by church. 
Parents (see Husband and Wife). 
Parks (see Eminent Domain). 
Parliament (see also Legislature), early function purely
    judicial;
  retains the right to tax;
  early history of, its attempt to recover legislative power;
  the source of supply;
  judicial power of;
  taxation powers of;
  origin of;
  word not used in Magna Charta;
  first represented in;
  word first used in 1275;
  first “model” sat in 1295;
  to be held once or twice in the year A.D. 1311;
  must be annual;
  claims the right to ratify treaties;
  to be consulted on war;
  rarely summoned under Henry VIII;
  the Barebones;
  single chamber under Cromwell;
  the rump;
  (see House of Commons). 
Parole (see Crime);
  new laws concerning. 
Patents (see Monopolies) regulated by statute of monopoly.