Committee of the Whole, procedure (Cont.) 
errors not assigned below, 296 
hearing, 138, 150, 153, 157, 174, 205 
[397], 273, 274 [11], 276-77, 278, 
284, 289, 290, 293-94, 295, 307, 331, 
34i, 343. 356. 367 [66], 427-28, 438- 
41. 448, 477. 501, 505. sio, 517, 546- 
s°. 559. 561. 613-14, 621-23 
hearing, delay, 276-77, 284, 437 [128], 
438 [132] 
hearing ex parte, 277, 284, 293, 314, 317, 
336, 342. 503 
K.B. error practice followed, 276 
motion for hearing, 275, 284 
order for hearing, 275, 276, 278, 284 
reading of petition and appeal, 290 
record scrutinized, 290 
reference of cases involving accounts, 312- 
14 
rehearing, distinguished from resettlement 
of order, 316 
rehearing, possibility of, 317-18, 477 
report to Council Board, 149, 150, 153, 
!57. !74. 181 [278], 182, 206, 207-8, 
217, 225 [59], 231, 242, 278, 280 [57, 
62], 281 [63], 284, 292 [133]. 303, 
307, 314-16, 326, 331, 342, 343, 355- 
56". 357, 358, 375, 379, 383, 408, 428, 
442, 448, 452, 453, 477, 491, 498, 503, 
506, 510-11, 514, 517, 550-51, 569, 
623, 628, 650 
report to Council Board, nature of, 316, 
480 
report to Council Board, settlement of, 315 
reluctance to reform, 355-56, 359, 416 
summons of respondent, 275, 276, 277 
voting, 325 [335] 
weakness of, 276 
standing orders, 276-77 
subcommittee employed, 136 
Committees of Privy Council, see Privy Council 
Common law 
existence presumed in acts of Parliament, 
466 
extension to colonies, 211-12, 400, 401-2, 
403, 404, 547-48, 550, 553, 574 [283, 
284], 656, 660, 661 
adjudications of English courts, 466-73 
adjudications of Privy Council, 476-78 
by charter provision, 465, 466, 485-86, 
529, 531, 548 [119]. 553-55, 587 
by instructions, 468 
by migration, 211, 469, 495, 656 
by royal proclamation, 494-95 
influence of English cases, 473 
opinion in colonies, 473-76, 477-78, 484- 
87. 559-60, 661 
opinion of Coke, 467-68 
opinion of Holt, 471, 472 
opinion of Hutchinson, 520-21 
opinion of Keith, 484 
opinion of Law, 574 [284] 
opinion of Northey, 472 
opinion of Pemberton, 471 
opinion of Randolph, 485 
opinion of Sharpe, 574 [284] 
opinion of Shower, 472 
opinion of Vaughan, 469-70 
opinion of West, 483 [68], 548 [119] 
opinion of Wilks, 560 
opinion of Yorke (P.) and Wearg, 548 
[ii 9] 
policy of Privy Council, 482-83, 548" [119] 
reform precluded by regard for, 416 
see also Rights of English subjects 
Common Pleas, Court of 
Chief Justice adviser to Privy Council, 73, 
116 [259] 
see also Eyre, Robert; King, Peter; Littleton, 
Edward; Trevor, Thomas; Vaughan, John; 
Walmesley, Thomas; Willes, John; Wilmot, 
John Eardley 
Commonwealth, see Interregnum 
Company governing bodies 
appellate jurisdiction of, 42 
Complaint, 23, 36, 74-75, 108, 128, 129, 135, 
160, 161, 168, 174 [232], 197, 202-6, 447, 
550 [131], 55i. 552, 554 [153]. 555. 556, 
611 
interrelation with appeal and disallowance, 
112, 158, 205 
petition of, 16, 23-24, 125, 126, 129, 154, 
171-72, 182, 183, 227 [67], 448, 545, 
582, 647 
reference to Board of Trade, 611-12 
reference to colonial governor for answer, 
204, 280 
reference to crown law officers, 594 
Comptroller, 30, 65 [417] 
Comyn, Phillips, 200 
Comyns, John, counsel, 294, 308, 309 
on right of appeal in Isle of Man, 171- 
74 
Congreve, Charles, 149 [93] 
Connecticut 
act for settling intestate estates proposed, 559- 
60 
act of 1699 for settling intestate estates 
(nullified), 537"38, 539 [72], 541 [83], 
542 [82], 547, 550, 551 [133, 136], 552, 
553, 554. 555, 557, 558 [182], 562 [208], 
569 [251], 572, 573, 574 [283], 576- 
77, 613 [466], 633 
act of 1702 for holding courts, 546 [111]