1. 2 Mod. 319.
2. Vinn. In Inst. l. 2. tit. 1. § 15.
3. 1 Hal. P. C. 511, 512.
4. Bro. Abr. tit. Propertie. 29.
5. Ff. 6. 1. 5.
6. L. of N. l. 4. c. 7.
7. 7 Rep. 17.
8. Bracton. l. 2. c. 1. 7 Rep. 17.
9. Inst. 2. 1. 15.
10. Finch. L. 177.
11. Crompt. of courts. 167. 7 Rep. 16.
12. Puf. l. 4. c. 6. § 5. Inst. 2. 1. 14.
13. l. 2. c. 1. § 3.
14. Bro. Abr. tit. Propertie. 37. cites 43 Edw. III. 24.
15. 9 Hen. III. c. 13.
16. 1 Hal. P. C. 512.
17. Lamb. Eiren. 275.
18. 7 Rep. 18. 3 Inst. 109.
19. Bro. Abr. tit. Trespass. 407.
20. 1 Hal. P. C. 512. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 33.
21."Si quis felem, horrei regii custodem, occiderit vel furto abstulerit, felis summa cauda suspendatur, capite aream attingente, et in eam grana tritici effundantur, usquedum summitas caudae tritico co-operiatur." Wotton. LL. Wall. l. 3. c. 5. § 5. An amercement similar to which, Sir Edward Coke tells us (7 Rep. 18.) there anciently was for stealing swans; only suspending them by the beak, instead of the tail.
22. Carta de forest. 9. Hen. III. c. 13.
23. 7 Rep. 17. Lamb. Eiren. 274.
24. Cro. Car. 554. Mar. 48. 5 Mod. 376. 12 Mod. 144.
25. 9 Rep. 58.
26. Ibid. 59. Lutw. 92.
27. 9 Rep. 59.
28. 1 Leon. 273. Skinn. 389.
29. 1 Roll. Abr. 607.
30. Cro. Jac. 245.
31. 3 Inst. 108.
32. The same idea, and the same denomination, of property prevailed in the civil law. "Rem in bonis nostris habere intelligimur, quotiens ad recuperandum eam actionem habeamus." (Ff. 41. 1. 52.) And again; "Aeque bonis adnumerabitur etiam, si quid est in actionibus, petitionibus, persecutionibus. Nam et haec in bonis esse videntur." (Ff. 50. 16. 49.)
33. 1 Equ. Cas. abr. 360.
34. Mar. 106.
35. 2 Freem. 206.
36. 1 P. Wms. 290.
37. Litt. § 282. 1 Vern. 482.
38. Litt. § 321.
39. 1 Equ. Cas. abr. 292.
40. pag. 193.
41. 1 Vern. 217. Co. Litt. 182.