setting fire to or destroying, how punished, 290, 291.

how loss occasioned by, recoverable against hundred, &c., 291.
when owner may sue for stopping up watercourse, &c., 293.

MILLER

(See "Bread." See vol. 3. Index, tit. " Miller.")
how far liable for stealing corn, 284.

when indictment lies against, for changing corn, 284.
remedies against, for adulteration, &c. of meal, 285.

power of justices to issue and execute search warrant, &c., 285.
punishment for adulteration, 286.

punishment for having articles of adulteration in house, 286.
penalty, &c. for opposing search, 286.

recovery of penalties, 286.

remedies against, for delivering corn short of weight, 287.

tolls.

what weights miller to use, 287.

examination, &c. of such weights, 287.

penalty, &c. for having false weights, 287.

power of owner to compel miller to weigh, &c., 287.
provision as to waste, &c. in grinding, 287, 288.

at what time to be taken, 288.

must be taken in money, 288.

penalties for taking in corn, 288.

provisions as to contracts of parties, and customs to contrary, 238.

table of tolls, &c. to be hung up, 288.

but this does not extend to private mills, &c., 288.

penalties how recoverable, 288.

what amount of toll may be taken, 289.

when particular mills must by custom be used, and penalty for not using them,

290.

of the destruction of mills, and remedies for, &c., 290 to 293.-(See

Mill.")

when miller may sue for nuisance, &c. to watercourse, 293.

MINES.

under canals, property of, in whom vested, 137.

of gold and silver, belonging to king, 180.

MINT.

business of, how conducted, 181.

MODELS.-(See " Literary Property.")

MONEY, COINS, AND NOTES.-(See " Tokens." See vol. 3., Index, tit.

"Money.")

their utility, 179.

MONEY, COINS, AND NOTES.-(continued.)
prerogative of crown as to right to coin, &c., 180.
of the materials of coins, 180.

how far copper coin on same footing with other, 180.
of the impression on coins, 180.

king the prerogative of stamping coins, 180.

of the denomination or value, 181.

king the prerogative of naming, &c., 181.
how value to be ascertained, 181.

of the process of assaying, 181.

alloy mixed with gold and silver, 181.

weights of coins, 181.

what definition and meaning of word "sterling," 181.

all coin must be made by value of, 181.

king's prerogative extends how far in this respect, 181, 182.

king's prerogative as to making foreign coin current here, 182.

decrying down, &c. the coin here, 182.

of tokens, 182.-(See "Tokens.")

of the tender of, 183.-(See" Tender." See vol. 3., Index, tit. "Tender.")
of the forgery of bank notes, 186.

how far holder a right to retain a forged note against bank, 186.

MONOPOLY.-(See " Patent," "Corporation," "Trade.")

its consequences, 190.

what amounts to, 188. 190.

all monopolies deemed contrary to law by 21 Jac. 1., 190.

post-office a legal monopoly, 190.

some other trading corporations are legal, 190.-(See "Corporation.")

grants of, under existing letters patent, for twenty years or under, not one,
191.

other patents not so, 191.

how validity of grants to be tried, and what damages to be given, 190.

MOORAGE. (See "Tolls.")

who a right to, 16.

the amount claimable, 17.

MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS.-(See " Literary Property.")

NEWCASTLE.

stat. I Eliz. regulates the unlading merchandizes at port of, 10.
tolls granted to the town of, 18.

NEWSPAPERS.-(See " Printing.")

NUISANCE.

what are nuisances to ports, &c., 23.

of the remedies for nuisances, &c. to ports, 24.
on high seas, removed by court of admiralty, 26.

to highways, &c., remedy for, 128, 9.

letting off fireworks in public streets is one, 331.
what setting up offensive trades a nuisance, 265.
when individual should sue for, 264.

when the public should, 264.

when equity will grant injunctions against, 267.-(See vol. 3., tit. “In-
junction.")

NUISANCE.-(continued.)

statutory provisions to prevent, 267.

when owner of mill may sue for nuisance to watercourse, 293.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.-(See "Quarantine.")

summary of, relating to quarantine, 68 to 71.

are generally notified in London Gazette, 71.

special, are sometimes issued in cases of urgency, and not published, 71.
stat. 45 G. 3. relating thereto, 71.

OWNER OF SHIP.-(See "Master of Ship," "Convoys.")

PAPER, PASTEBOARD, &c.-(See "Printing."-See vol. 1., tit. "Paper.")
of the licence required to make, 364.

where making of, may be carried on, 364, 5.

of the different classes and ingredients of, 365.

when maker may begin to make, 365, n.7.
mode of weighing, 366.

of the packing it up, &c., 366.

marking of parcels of paper, 366.

printing paper for hangings, regulations as to, 367.
making up of, &c., 368.

forgery of stamps, how punished, 369.

weights and scales to be kept, &c., 369.

how stationers, dealers in, &c. to receive it, &c., 369.

when paper may be removed, 369.

making paper like bank-notes, how punished, 369.

with "excise office" printed on, how punished, 370.

PASTEBOARD.-(See " Paper.")

PATENT.

power of king to grant, 191.

for what inventions granted, 192 to 196.

how the patent should be taken out, 196.

consequence of two different patents professing same object, 196.

to whom patents may be granted, 196 to 198.

who considered as the inventor, 196.

party first introducing to public the first inventor, 196.

how far inventor publishing discovery may take out, 196.

what such publication, 197.

patentee must be sole inventor, 197.

party obtaining information of discovery, promising not to disclose it,
liable, 197.

how far equity will interfere to prevent such disclosure, 198.

what care inventor should use in construction of invention, 198.

the form of the patent and specification, 198 to 205.

how the invention should be described, 198.

language of patent explainable by specification, 199.

of the terms and contents of the specification, 201.

any thing inserted to mislead, patent void, 202.

insertion of what will not answer purpose, patent void, 202.
how far concealment vitiates, 202.

exceeding limits of invention, patent void, 203.
new and old invention to be pointed out, 203.

how far subsequent discovery of improvement vitiates, 203.
how patentee should act in such case, 204.

PATENT.-(continued.)

the form of the patent and specification.-(continued.)
of setting forth models and drawings in, 204.

within what time specification to be enrolled, 204.
how to be enrolled, and necessity of enrolment, 205.
the practical mode of obtaining the patent, 205 to 209.
how parties should act, 205, 206.

when specification to be made, &c., 206.
when a caveat to be entered, 206.,

what a caveat is, and its effects, 206.

of the form of the caveat, 208.

observations on caveats, 208.

acts of parliament for enlarging the term and number of proprietors, 208.
the remedies for the infringement of, 209 to 211.

of suing at law, 209.

of applying for injunctions, 209.

when injunction granted, 210.

evidence to be adduced on trial at law, 210.
venue cannot be changed in action, 210.
right of assignees of patent, &c., 211.
the modes of annulling and vacating, 212.
how far death of king determines, 212.

how far defect in patent or specification vacates, 212. 210.
of the writ of seire facias, 212.

PAWN. (See "Pawnbroker," Index, vol. 3., tit. "Pawn.")
effect as to sales in market-overt does not extend to pawns, 149.

PAWNBROKER.-(See Index, vol. 3., tit. "Pawn," "Pawnbroker.")
sale of to, by wrongful owner, does not divest property, 149.

PEDLAR.-(See "Hawker and Pedlar.")

PESAGE. (See "Weighage.")

PETTLOADING.-(See " Tolls.")
who a right to, 16.

the amount claimable, 17.

PEWTER AND BRASS WARES.

searchers appointed to prevent goods being made of inferior materials, 376.

PILOTS.-(continued.)

their appointment, and the obligation to employ them, 46 to 53.

who to appoint, 48.

what vessels they may pilot, 48.

what vessels exempt from obligation to employ, 48.

decisions on these exemptions, &c., 48, 49.

an Irish vessel, with a general cargo on board, is not a coaster within 52 Geo. 3.

c. 39. s. 2., 6 Moore's Rep. 387.

of the number of cinque port pilots, 50.

punishment for pilot of cinque port not being ready, 50.
obligation to take pilot on board, 50.

punishment for not taking, 50.

lists of pilots, 52.

of boatmen and their appointment, &c., 53.

license and qualification, 53.

who may be a pilot, 53.

punishment for acting as one, 54.

description of his person to be endorsed on license, 54.
may supersede persons not licensed within their limits, 54.

duties of pilot, 54.

how far pilot must take charge of vessel, 54.

punishment for negligence or misbehaviour, &c., 55.
in cases of quarantine, 73.

pilotage, 55.

how rates regulated, 55.

when not claimable, 57.

how recoverable, 56.

liability of masters, &c. for not taking pilot, 57.

penalty for not piloting, 57.

when want of pilot excused, 58.

liability of owners and masters for losses, &c. where no pilot, 58.
liability of, where there is a pilot, 59.

how penalties for offences against pilot acts recoverable, 60.

PIRACY.

what offences deemed as, and punishment for, 119 to 124.
under foreign commissions, 119.

where admiral has jurisdiction, 119.

accessaries to, how tried and punished, 120.

trading with any pirate on seas, 120.

commissions from the king's enemies, 120.

cases and decisions as to what amounts to, 120 to 124.

nature of the offence, and how triable, 124.

power of king, 125.

how far piratical seizure divests owner's property, 125.
property divested by sale in market overt, 125.

- proof of ownership in goods how established, 125.

PIRACY of Copyright, &c.-(See "Busts and Figures," "Literary Property.")

PLATE.

of what fineness it must be made, 377.

must be stamped, 378.

of the assaying of it, 379.

how to be marked, 379.

penalty for exposing to sale unmarked, 379.

duties when returnable, 379.

dealer in, must take out licence, 379.