Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)Sir William Blackstone Of Courts of a Special Jurisdiction
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     1.    Cart. de forest. 9 Hen. III. c. 8.
     2.    4 Inst. 289.
     3.    Carth. 79.
     4.    Cart. de forest. c. 16.
     5.    Ibid. c. 6.
     6.    3 Inst. 308.
     7.    Cart de forest. c. 8.
     8.    Stat. 34 Edw. I. c. 1.
     9.    4 Inst. 289.
   10.    4 Inst. 291.
   11.    Stat. 1 Edw. III. c. 8. 7 Ric. II. c. 4.
   12.    4 Inst. 313.
   13.    Ibid. 297.
   14.    Ibid. 295.
   15.    Hoveder.
   16.    North's life of lord Guilford. 45.
   17.    F. N. B. 115.
   18.    1 Sid. 145.
   19.    Romney-marsh in the county of Kent, a tract containing 24000 acres, is governed by certain ancient and equitable laws of sewers, composed by Henry de Bathe, a venerable judge in the reign of king Henry the third; from which laws all commissioners of sewers in England may receive light and direction. (4 Inst. 276.)
   20.    Cro. Jac. 336.
   21.    Moor. 825, 826. See pag. 54.
   22.    Milt. parad. Lost. iv. 393.
   23.    1 Ventr. 66. Salk. 146.
   24.    Styl. 166.
   25.    1 Show. 396.
   26.    Stat. 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 22. § 3 & 4.
   27.    1 Bulstr. 211.
   28.    Flet. l. 2. c. 2.
   29.    Artic. sup. cart. 28 Edw. I. c. 3. Stat. 5 Edw. III. c. 2. 10 Edw. III. St. 2. c. 2.
   30.    2 Inst. 548.
   31.    By the ancient Saxon constitution, the pax regia, or privilege or the king's palace, extended from his palace gate to the distance of three miles, three furlongs, three acres, nine feet, nine palms, and nine barley corns; as appears from a fragment of the textus Rossensis cited in Dr. Hickes's dissertat. epistol. 114.
   32.    1 Bulstr. 211. 10 Rep. 79.
   33.    F. N. B. 241. 2 Inst. 548.
   34.    1 Bulstr. 208.
   35.    1 Sid. 180. Salk. 439.
   36.    See vol. I. introd. § 4.
   37.    2 Roll. Rep. 141.
   38.    2 Bulstr. 156. 2 Saund. 193. Raym. 206.
   39.    Cro. Jac. 484.
   40.    Vaugh. 413. Hardr. 66.
   41.    Hob. 77. 2 Lev. 24.
   42.    4 Inst. 206.
   43.    1 Chan. Rep. 55. Toth. 145. Hardr. 171.
   44.    4 Inst. 213. Finch. R. 452.
   45.    see vol. I. introd. § 4.
   46.    1 Sid. 166.
   47.    Jenk. 71. Dyversyte des courts. t. bank le roy. 1 Sid. 356.
   48.    Bro. Abr. t. error. 74. 101. Davis 62. 4 Inst. 38. 214. 218.
   49.    1 Sid. 92.
   50.    Cro. Jac. 543.
   51.    4 Inst. 232.
   52.    See this at length in 4 Inst. 232.
   53.    4 Inst. 231.
   54.    Ibid. 230.
   55.    3 Bulstr. 183.
   56.    Doderidge hist. of Cornw. 94.
   57.    The chief of those in London are the sheriffs courts, held before their steward or judge; from which a writ of error lies to the court of hustings, before the mayor, recorder, and sheriffs; and from thence to justices appointed by the king's commission, who used to sit in the church of St. Martin le grand. (F. N. B. 32.) And from the judgment of those justices a writ of error lies immediately to the house of lords.
   58.    Salk. 144. 263.
   59.    As for Westminster, and the Tower-Hamlets; 23 Geo. II. Lincoln; 24 Geo. II. Brimingham, St. Albans, Liverpool, and Canserbury; 25 Geo. II. Sheffield; 29 Geo. II. Brixten, and Yarmouth; 31 Geo. II. High Peak, Derbyshire; 33 Geo. II. Bradford, Melksham, and Whorlfdown; 3 Geo. III. Dancaster and Kirkby in Kendal; 4 Geo. III. and certain hundreds in Kent and Wiles; 5 Geo. III.
   60.    Vol. I. introd. § 1.
   61.    cod. 4. tit. 13.
   62.    13 Eliz. c. 29.
   63.    4 Inst. 227.
   64.    Jenk. Cent. 2. pl. 88. Cent. 3. pl. 33. Hardr. 504. Godbolt. 201.
   65.    Hist. C. L. 33.
   66.    Tit. 21. § 19.
   67.    Cod. 7. 70. 1.
   68.    2 Inst. 548.