The Rights of Persons, According to the Text of Blackstone

a queen regnant.-Queen dowager.-The prince of Wales and the
rest of the royal family.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

OF THE COUNCILS BELONGING TO THE KING.

1. The high court of parliament.-2. The peers of the realm col-
lectively and individually.—3. The judges.-4. The privy council.—
The judicial committee of the privy council and the cabinet council.

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

OF THE KING'S DUTIES.

After the Revolution the king's duties were expressly declared.-
They are to govern according to law, to execute judgment in mercy,
and to maintain the established religion.

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.

OF THE KING'S PREROGATIVE.

The king's prerogative is either direct or incidental. The direct pre-
rogative is of three kinds:-1. The royal dignity.-2. The royal
authority and 3. The royal income.-I. THE ROYAL DIGNITY
consists, in 1. Of the king's sovereignty. Remedy provided
by the constitution against private injuries, or public oppressions of
the crown.-2. The King's perfection. He is incapable of doing, or
thinking wrong.--Consequence of this doctrine.-3. The king's per-
petuity.-II. THE ROYAL AUTHORITY.-How far absolute and
under what limits.—It either respects this nation's intercourse with
foreign countries, or its own domestic policy.-I. As to foreign
concerns.-1. The king has the power of sending ambassadors.—
The rights of ambassadors.—2. The king makes treaties and leagues.
-3. The king makes war and peace.-4. The king may grant letters
of marque.—The modern practice as to letters of marque.-5. The
king may grant safe conducts.-The law as to aliens regulated
by the 6 Wm. IV. c. 11.—II. As to domestic concerns.—1. The
power of rejecting bills in parliament.-2. The king is generalissimo.
-His power in this capacity. As to the exportation and importa-
tion of arms under 6 Geo. IV. c. 107.-As to enlistment in foreign
service, under 59 Geo. III. c. 69.-3. The king is the fountain
of justice. The consequence of this doctrine.-4 The king is the
fountain of honour.-5. The king is the arbiter of commerce.—
Consequence of this doctrine.-The alteration of the law as to the
regulation of weights and measures, by the 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 63.-
As to coining money, and what is a legal tender.-6. The king is
the head of the church.-Consequence of this doctrine.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.

OF THE KING'S REVENUE.

The king's revenue, either ordinary or extraordinary.—1: The Ordi-
nary revenue consists of, 1. The custody of the bishops' temporali-
ties.-2 Corodies.-3. The tithes of extra parochial places.-
4. First fruits and tenths. The present state of this fund.-5. The
rents and profits of the demesne lands.-6. The profits of military
tenures.-7. Wine licenses.-8. Profits arising from forests.-
9. Profits arising from courts of justice.-10. Royal fish.-11. Ship-
wrecks. The law as to wrecks.-12. The right to mines.-
13. Treasure-trove.-14. Waifs.-15. Estrays.-16. Bona confis-
cata.-Deodands.-Law as to.-17. Escheats.-18. The custody
of idiots and lunatics.-Law as to idiots, lunatics, and prodigals.-
II. The extraordinary revenue.-What this arises from,-1. The
land-tax. The history of the land-tax.-Tenths, fifteenths, and
aids.-Land-tax formerly annual, now perpetual, but subject to re-
demption under the 42 Geo. III. c. 116.-2. The malt-tax for-
merly annual, but now rendered perpetual.-3. The customs.—
The history of this tax.-The consolidation of the acts relating to
it.-4. The excise.-History of this tax.-Recent increase of the ex-
cise, and state of the law respecting it.-5. The post-office.-
History of its establishment.—The privilege of franking as regu-
lated by Vict. c. 36.-6. Stamps : great alterations made in this
branch of the revenue since the time of Blackstone.-7. The assessed
taxes :-consisting of duties on windows, male servants, carriages,
horses, dogs, horse-dealers, hair-powder, armorial bearings, and
game.-8. Duty on offices and pensions.-Amount of the extra-
ordinary revenue.-How it is appropriated in paying the interest
of the national debt.-History of the national debt.-Its former and
present amount.-Advantages and disadvantages of a national
debt. The consolidated fund.-How it is formed. The sinking
fund. Its history and present state.-The royal allowances and
civil list. Its history and present state. General reflections
on the past and present power of the crown.

CHAPTER THE NINTH.

SUBORDINATE MAGISTRATES.

Subordinate magistrates are, 1. Sheriff.-How he was formerly, and
is now chosen.-The duties of the sheriff. His judicial capacity.
-Is bound to execute all process. He is the king's bailiff.-His
officers. The under-sheriff.-His judicial duties increased by the
3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 42.-Bailiffs.-2. The coroner.-How chosen.-
His fees recently settled by the 1 Vict. c. 68.-3. Justice of peace.
The history of this officer.-His power and duty. 4. The constable.

-Of various kinds.-The new police.-5. Surveyor of highways.
—6. The overseer of the poor.-The old and new poor law.

CHAPTER THE TENTH.

OF THE PEOPLE, WHETHER ALIENS, DENIZENS, OR NATIVES.
The people divided into aliens and natural born subjects.—The oaths
of allegiance.-Supremacy and abjuration.-Alteration by the
10 Geo. IV. c. 7.-Allegiance of two sorts, natural or local.—What
aliens may do.-Who is considered such, and who a natural born
subject.-Denizens, what they may do.-Naturalization.

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.

OF THE CLERGY.

The clergy. Their privileges.-Their disabilities.-The state of the
law under the 57 Geo. III. c. 99, 1 Vict. c. 10, and 1 & 2 Vict.
c. 106.-As to their trading and being members of companies: I. The
archbishops and bishops.-Alterations recommended and effected
as to bishopricks by the ecclesiastical commission, and the 6 & 7
Wm. IV. c. 77.-II. The dean and chapter.-III. The archdeacon.
-IV. Rural deans.-V. Parsons and vicars.-Appropriation.—
What is necessary to becomea parson or vicar.-His residence ne-
cessary. What pluralities may be held under 1 & 2 Vict. c. 106.
-VI. Curates.-How regulated by the 1 & 2 Vict. c. 106.-VII.
Churchwardens.-VIII. Parish clerks.

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.

OF THE CIVIL STATE.

The civil state is divided into the nobility and commonalty.-Different
degrees of nobility.-How created.—Incidents to the nobility.-
Different degrees of commonalty, and table of precedence.

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.

OF THE MILITARY AND MARITIME STATE.

The military state.-History of the army in England. The settlement
and regulation of the militia.—How the army in time of war is raised.
-As to billetting soldiers under the mutiny act.-How the army is
composed.-Martial law.-How far to be endured. The advantages
of the military state.-The maritime state.-Regulation of the navy

-Repeal of the former navigation act, and state of the law in this
respect. Impressment.-Other modes of manning the navy.—The
articles for ordering the navy.—The privileges conferred on the navy.

CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.

OF MASTER AND SERVANT.

I. As to the several sorts of servants.-1. Menial servants.-2. Appren-
tices.-3. Labourers.-4. Stewards, factors, and bailiffs.-II. The
effect of the relation.-III. How strangers may be affected by the
relation.

CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.

OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.

I. How marriage may be contracted.-Incestuous marriages now
void, and not voidable by the 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 54.-First. The
parties must be willing to contract.-Secondly. Able to contract.-
The disabilities.-Alterations made as to these by the 4 Geo. IV.
c. 76.-Lastly. The marriage must be had in due form.-State of
the law as to this under the 4 Geo. IV. c. 76, and the 6 & 7
Wm. IV. c. 85.-II. The manner in which marriages may be dis-
solved.-III. The legal consequence of marriage with respect to the
rights of the parties and third persons.

CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH.

OF PARENT AND CHILD.

Children of two sorts.-I. Legitimate children.-1. The duties of pa-
rents. Maintenance.-State of the law as to this under the 4 & 5
Wm. IV. c. 76.-Protection.-Education.-A Roman Catholic edu-
cation now permitted by the 10 Geo. IV. c. 7.—2. The power of
parents over their children.-As to marriages by the 4 Geo IV. c. 76.
-3. The duties of children as to their parents.-II. Illegitimate
children.-1. Who are bastards.-2. The duties of parents to their
bastards.-Much varied by the 4 & 5 Wm. IV. c. 76.-3. The
rights and incapacities of bastards.

CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH.

OF GUARDIAN AND WARD.

1. The several species of guardians.—2. The ward when of age, and
what acts he may do.-Cannot now make a will under 21, 1 Vict.
c. 26.-3. Infants-Their privileges and disabilities.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH.

OF CORPORATIONS.

Advantages of corporations.-Their history in this country.-How
divided.-1. How corporations may be created.-The Municipal
Corporation Act, 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76.-II. The rights and privi-
leges and incapacities of a corporation.-Certain corporate powers
may be granted without incorporation, by 6 Geo. IV. c. 91, 4 & 5
Wm. IV. c. 94, and 1 Vict. c. 73.—III. How a corporation may
be visited.-IV. How corporations may be dissolved.