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ADOPTION.

Adoption, fiction of, 130.

influence of the sacra gentilieia on the law of, 6, 7, 27.

in Hindoo law, 193.

Adprehensio; or assumption of sovereign power in a newly discovered country, 249.

Æquitas, the term, 58. See Equity.

Æquus, the word, 59.

Agnatic and Cognatic relationship, difference between, 59, 146.

Agnation described, 147, 148.

Agreement, Roman analysis of, 322.

Agri vectigales, Roman practice of letting out, 300.

limitrophi of the Romans on the banks of the Rhine and Danube, 502.

Alexander the Sixth, Pope, his Bull, 249.

Alfred, King, his remarks on criminal jurisdiction quoted, 398.

Alienation of property, ancient difficulties of, 271.

archaic ceremonies of, 272.

Allodial property, of the ancient Germans, 228, 281.

America, United States of. Declaration of Independence of, 95.

Anglo-Saxons, character of their Kingship, 108.

their law of succession, 280.

their penal law, 370, 374, 379.

Archon of Athens, office of the, 10.

Aristocracies, origin of the rule of, 10.

those of Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor, 10.

difference between those of the East and West, 11.

aristocracies, the depositaries and administrators of the law, 11, 12.

Aristocracies,  importance of judicial, before the invention of writing, 12.

foundation of aristocracies, 132.

Aristotle, his "Treatise on Rhetoric" referred to, 75.

Assignees in Bankruptcy, succession of, 180.

Athenian wills, 196.

Athens, primitive penal law of, 382.

Augustus, the Emperor, his alterations in the Roman law, 41, 42.

Austin's "Province of Jurisprudence determined," referred to, 7.

Bayle referred to, 87.

Benefices of the invading chiefs of the Roman Empire, 229.

transformation of the Benefice into the hereditory Fief, 230.

Bengalee Wills, 197.

Bentham, his "Fragment on Government" referred to, 7.

causes of bis influence in England, 78.

the Roman counterpart of Benthanism, 79.

his theory of Jurisprudence, 117.

his eulogy of the Bull of Pope Alexander the Sixth, 249.

Bentham and Austin's rules as to the essentials of a contract, 323. Blackstone, Sir William, his theory of the first principles of law, 114.

his justification for the exclusion of the half-blood, 152.

his theory of the origin of property quoted, 251.

his theory criticised, 253.

Bonorum Possessio of the Romans, 211.

Bracton, hu plagiarisms, 82.

Burgundians, the, referred to, 104.