Restraint of trade (see Forestalling, Trusts, Monopoly),
general, discussion chapter IX, doctrine of foreshadowed in Magna
Charta;
origin of doctrine;
instance of;
still our common law;
expression first used in 1436;
double damages for, recognized in statute of York;
an element of “Trusts”;
under the Sherman act;
the Massachusetts statute.
Retail (see Wholesale).
Retailing by countrymen forbidden in towns by statute of Philip.
Retainers, feudal, laws against.
Revenue bills (see also Money Bills);
must originate in lower house, A.D. 1407.
Revenue officers may not meddle with the goods of travellers under pain
of quadruple damages and imprisonment.
Revisions, need of authorized.
Rex vs. Crispe, monopoly case.
Richard I imposes taxes to pay for crusade.
Richard II, legislation of;
all his laws declared to be permanent;
their repeal declared to be high treason;
the following year they were all repealed under Henry IV.
Right to privacy (see Privacy).
Rights, indefinite.
Riotous assemblies, laws against.
Riots (see Injunctions), law against under Henry V;
suppression of by common-law courts in chancery;
use of executive power to suppress, dates from 1414;
use of chancery power permitted;
law of 1495;
punishment of by Star Chamber;
act of Edward VI;
counties liable for damages in 1285;
European law of;
Star Chamber’s authority over;
duty of by-standers.
Rivers, pollution of, regulated as early as Henry VIII.
Roads (see Internal Improvements).
Roman law, distinct in two great principles from English law;
individual liberty and law-making by the sovereign;
an order to the subject;
protest of barons against, A.D. 1383;
forbidden to be cited in the courts.
Rome, Church of (see Church, Canon Law, Pope), high-water mark
of domination over England in 1213.
Sack (see Wine).
Sacraments, jurisdiction over in church alone.
Sales in bulk prohibited.
Sales, uniform law of;
sales at less than cost forbidden.
San Francisco earthquake, martial law in.
Saxon (see Anglo-Saxon).
Schools, to be no religious instruction in;
appropriations may be divided.
Scotchmen banished from England.
Scots to depart realm within forty days.
Scott, Laura, her report upon child labor.
Scutage, the beginning of taxation;
tax or money paid in lieu furnishing men-at-arms;
replaced military service.
Sea, navigation of, free to all English (see Monopoly).
Seamen, imprisonment of, statute against under Cromwell.
Search, right of, denied.
Seduction, injunction issued against;
of service;
action for.
Segregation of races;