1. 11 Phillip. 12.
2. L. 1. c. 3.
3.Facultas ejus, quod cuique facere libet, nisi quid jure prohibetur. Inst. 1.3.1.
4. 3 Edw IV. c. 5.
5. 30 Car, II. st.1.c.3.
6. on Gov, p.2., 57.
7. Salk. 666.
8. Inst. proem.
9. 25 Edw. I.
10. 2 Inst. proem.
11. 1W. and M. st.2. c.2.
12. 12 & 13 W. III. c.2.
13. Plowd. 55.
14.Si aliquis mulierem pregnantem percusserit, vel ei venenum dederit, per quod fecerit abortivam; si puerperium jam formatum fuerit, et maxime si fuerit animatum, facit homicidium. Bracton. l.3. c.21.
15. 3 Inst. 90
16. Stat. 12 Car II. c.24
17. Stat. 10 & 11 W. III. c. 16
18.Qui in utero sunt, in jure civili intelliguntur in rerum natura esse, cum de eorum commodo agatur. Ff. 1. 5. 26.
19. 2 Inst. 483
20. L. 2. c. 5.
21. 2 Inst. 483
22. Ff. 48. 21. 1.
23. l. 11. t.27
24. Co. Litt. 133.
25. This was also a rule in the feudal law, l.2. t.21. desiit esse miles seculi, qui factus est miles Christi; nec beneficium pertinet ad eum qui non debet gerere officium.
26. Litt. 200.
27. Co. Litt. 133 b.
28. 2 Rep. 48 Co. Litt. 132
29. Co. Litt. 132.
30. Salk. 162.
31. c. 29.
32. 2 Inst. 48
33. c.29.
34. 5 Edw. III. c.9. 25 Edw. III. st. 5. c.4. and 28 Edw. III. 4.3.
35. 2 Inst. 589.
36. 2 Inst. 482.
37. 2 Inst. 52, 53.
38. F. N. B. 85.
39. cap. 29.
40. 2 Inst. 47.
41. c. 29.
42. 5 Edw. III. c.9. 25 Edw. III. st. 5. c.4. 28 Edw. III. c.3.
43. See the historical introduction to the great charter, etc, sub anno 1297; wherein it is shown that this statue de talliagio non concedendo, supposed to have been made in 34 Edw. I, is in reality nothing more than a sort of translation into Latin of the confirmatio cartarum, 25 Edw. I, which was originally published in the Norman language.
44. c. 29.
45. 2 Inst. 55.
46. c.29.
47. Montesq. Sp. L. 12. 26.
48. Montesq. Sp. L. 11. 5.