Intestate's, personal estate in England, and in the plantations, liability mulatto, in the Bahamas, dying intestate, withont relations, See titles Administration and Administrator. Judges, empowered to issue their precept to freeholders, where a justice 474. commission of, not revocable without misbehavior, 491. Jus Postliminii, after a war, reverts to creditors, relative to debts con- Justices of peace are to act according to the laws of England, 537, 538. imprisonment, 537. their power is restrained to criminal matters, mention- ed in their commission, 538, 541. K. King, his ecclesiastical authority abroad, 41. his prerogative cannot be lessened or taken away, by general words, his civil authority abroad, 65. where a governor has committed a forfeiture, the king may, though upon an extraordinary exigency, he may resume the government but such governor cannot alter any of the rules of property, or he may receive a surrender of the powers wherewith the proprie- his authority over Guernsey and Jersey, 88. his right to grant ceded lands, 105. his right to a moiety of an intestate mulatto's estate, and to treas- King, no prescription against, where a colony has been gained within his power of taxation, 158. may, under the great seal, direct duties to be levied for goods ex- may. by virtue of his prerogative, make laws that will bind places. may take off unappropriated duties, 160. his grants, 160; and see title Grants. his power to resume granted lands, where the conditions of the his remedy, where grantees hold more land than the words of the may, by virtue of his prerogative, establish courts of equity in the and courts of exchequer, 484. and criminal courts by commission under the great seal, but not should, after a surrender by trustees, of a charter for establishing has always exercised the right of calling and continuing assemblies whether his prerogative under the stat. 21 James I. c. 3, concern- may, under the great seal, give powers to governors for doing all in legal proceedings, an appeal lies to the king in council, 230. And see titles Patents and Governors. his prerogative, in relation to general assemblies, 239, 259. his prerogative in the West Indies is that power, which, by the his powers of summoning and proroguing parliament, 240. by his death his commissions cease, and general assemblies are King, but as to the dissolution of assemblies, see conora, 302 to 320 - may, by instructions to his governor, alter the right of representa- as a province increases, he may erect towns and counties, and give his name in acts of assembly unnecessary, 310. his writ of summons is necessary for the convention of an assem- taxes should be granted to the king, his heirs, and successors, 360. his prerogative cannot be affected by any act of assembly, 376. cannot, by law, direct the rehearing of a cause, 499. may allow an appeal in cases of any value, ib. may grant a nolle prosequi, in prosecutions for duties charged by cannot by his letters patent make bonds assignable, or make things where commissioners are appointed for the trial of capital offences, and may command their return, 553, 554, 555. may, on special occasions, and for state reasons, restrain particular may make laws in plantations, inhabited by his subjects, with his cannot, by treaty, make his subjects liable to other punishments, Laws of nations, 612. L. Laws, passed after the sale of a province, but before notice of such sale, Legislature should not interfere in matters of private right without the Licentiate Lawyers, objections to, 392. Lieutenant-governor, may be indicted, and tried in the king's bench, whether subject to the penalty under the 7th and 8th Wil. III. for regulating abuses in the plantation trade, quære, ib. London, bishop of, is diocesan of the colonies, 42. Lunatics: see title Idiots. M. Man, Isle of, custom house officers cannot, by qirtue of their office, Marshal is the proper officer in the colonies, to whom warrauts should Martial law, proclamation of, does not suspend the execution of the leg- "act for the establishment of religious worship, according to improper, 332. suspending act in force for eighteen months, or until the queen construction of their charter, as to the time allowed Merchants abroad, refusing offices necessary to support the society, are Minorca, with algiers, observations on the report relating to the trade Monopolies, doubtful whether stat. 21 Jac. I. c. 3. concerning, extends action will not lie upon that statute for seizing goods of the African company, 580, 581. Murder, persons guilty of, in the colonies, may be tried under a com- N. Naturalization act of, by assembly of a province, effect of, 332. -without license, will not discharge a natural-born subject from his allegiance, 645. Naval stores, importation of, from foreign parts, by merchants for the -carriage of, by a nation in alliance with another, to the enemy Navigation, act of, liberty to aliens to trade is against, 561. -privileges of trade proposed to be granted to the Spaniards, Trading of Spanish ships to the British islands, is against, 567, 573. Neutrality, treaty of, with France: see Trade. Newfoundland, act for encouraging the Greenland fishery, does not ex- -trade, by 10 and 11 Wm. III. is a free trade, and not taxa- -powers of justices of peace there, ib. -objections to articles between Great Britain and France re- New Jersey, construction of the king's commission, and instructions to -recommendation of the "act for ascertaining the places of |