Verdict, general (Continued) 
usual in N.J. and N.Y., 659 
nature of, 352 
opinion in colonies, 354-55, 357, 358, 359- 
65 
opinion of Allen, 364 [57] 
opinion of Chew, 363-64 
opinion of Maseres, 364 [59] 
opinion of Montague, 360 
opinion of Murray, 365 
opinion of Ogden, 368 [71] 
opinion of Partridge, 365-66 
opinion of Sharpe, 364 [59] 
opinion of Wilmot, 363 
review of at common law, 352-53 
special 
absence of supplied by representations of 
court, 371-72 
believed necessary for appeal, 363, 364 
content improper, 242 
directed on new trial, 153, 154, 158, 357- 
58, 359 
disadvantages of, 362 [55] 
employed in Va., 415, 620 
employed to show conformity to appealable 
amount, 224 
judge's power to direct, 370 
legislation on urged in Quebec, 364-65 
preferred for conciliar review, 153, 154, 
158, 353-54, 617 [487] 
proposed in Elizabeth purchase controversy, 
368, 369-70 
refused by juries, 155-56, 157, 359-60 
refused to be directed in Va., 617 
required by colonial act, 229 [75], 360- 
62 
urged in N.H. woods-reservation suits, 
360 
Vernon, James, Secretary of State, 323, 326, 
427 [59] 
Vice-admiralty appeals, 73, 88-95, Io i [164], 
109, 113, 138, 177-93, 200-2, 349 [502], 
35i» 659 
appellate forum 
inquiry of Blakiston, 177-78 
opinion of Blackstone, 191 
opinion of Board of Trade, 183, 348, 662 
opinion of Cooke, 180-81 
opinion of Hedges, 178, 179-80, 185 
opinion of Hedges and Ward, 91-92 
opinion of Kempe, 192 [333] 
opinion of Lloyd, 185 
opinion of Northey, 180-81, 184 
opinion of Seddon, 189-90 
opinion of Trevor, 145-46, 178 
opinion of Tryon, 192 [333] 
opinion of West, 185-86 
problem unseen, 271 
intracolonial, 191, 193-200 
jurisdiction of Halifax Court, 191 
provision in vice-admiralty commission, 
90 
reforms proposed by Abercromby, 168-69 
regional vice-admiralty courts, 192 
regulations 
civil rules applied, 265-66 
colonial legislation, 265 
comment by Andrews, 266 
draft bill of Lords Commissioners, 188- 
89 
draft bill of Marriott, 192, 267 
governors' instructions inapplicable, 265, 
662 
non-existent, 266-67 
opinion of Dummer, 186, 266, 267 
right of 
denied in Jamaica, 62 
opinion of Exton, 90 
opinion of Raines, 90-91, 130 [367] 
see also under names of particular colonies 
Vice-admiralty commissions, 90, 91, 177-78, 
179, 180, 182 [283], 183, 184, 185, 186 
[300], 188, 190 [315], 191, 192 
Vice-admiralty courts, 514 
colonial hostility to, 146, 178, 514 
established for all America at Halifax, 191 
established for regions at Boston, Charleston, 
Halifax, and Philadelphia, 191 
see also under names of particular colonies 
Vice-admiralty jurisdiction, 89 
basis of, 88, 90, 182-83, 184-85, 188 
colonial hostility to, 514 
conflicts with common law jurisdiction, 127- 
28, 181, 185, 205 [398], 514-20 
extension to colonies of acts of Parliament 
on, 514-20 
opinion of Jones, 127-28 
purpose of, 514 
scope of 
opinion of Alexander, 517 [205] 
opinion of Forrester, 517 
opinion of Ryder, 517 
opinion of W. Smith Jr., 517 [205] 
see also Prize jurisdiction 
Vice-admiralty patents, see Vice-admiralty 
commissions 
Vice-Chamberlain, 30 [191], 31 [193, 195], 
63 [412], 64, 65 [417, 418] 
Victualling the Navy, Commissioners for, 206 
[399], 357 
Virginia, 467 
act of 1661/2 on induction of ministers, 37 
act of 1661/2 for regulating ministers' 
salaries, 607