Pitts v. Gaince and Forethought, 2 Ld. Raym. 558 Porter's cafe, 1 Co. 25 Queen v. Sutton, to Mod. 74 Quick's cafe, 9 Co. 129 b. PAGE. 292 102 427 51 Quo Warranto cafe of the City of London 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 28 Regina v. Ballivos, &c. de Gippo, 2 Ld. Raym. Rex v. Mayor of Malmsbury, 8 Mod. 55 PAGE. 368 450 436 Salmon v. Hamborough Company, 1 Ca. Ch. 204 Seward v. Baker, 1 Term Rep. 616 Sir Chriftopher Mufgrave v. Mayor of Appleby 2 Ld. Raym. 1358 Sir Moile Finch's cafe, 6 Co. 65, a. Sir John Trelawney v. Bishop of Winchester, 1 Bur. 219 Sir Rob. Salisbury Cotton v. Davis, 1 Str. 53 300 Star 222 172, 173 276 188 436 251 174 427 PAGE Star v. Mayor, &c. of Exeter, 3 Lev. 116 15, 16, 20, 29, 32, 33, 37, 50, 52, 54, 55, 61, 62, 63, 64, 69, Turvill v. Aynfworth, 2 Ld. Raym. 1515, 2 Str. 787 259 University of Cambridge v. Archbishop of York, 10 Mod. 207 I Vinkenstern v. Ebden, 1 Ld. Raym. 384 Walker v. Sir John Lamb, Cro. Car. 258 Wych v. Eaft India Company, 3 P. W. 143 Young v. Fowler, Cro. Car. 555, 557 256, 257 190 392 172 183 301 300 170, 177 170 INTRODUCTION. FROM the establishment of civil fociety and political government, not only the individual acquires rights, and becomes fubject to duties, which can exist only in confequence of that establishment; but collective bodies of men come to feel a common intereft, acquire a common property, become fubject to common burthens and common duties, affume a known character and defcription, and become objects of political regulation. Some of these communities arife from the divifion of the country into districts for the fake of local government, or a more convenient system of police, whether fuch divifion takes place in confequence of a preconcerted plan, or from the progreffive operation of natural and political caufes; fuch, in England, are the political divifions of the country into counties, hundreds, liberties, manors, and parishes, and fome other lefs common divifions. Other communities are naturally formed from the concourfe of confiderable numbers of men into |