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The compleat justice of the peace, and parish officer: shewing the authority and power of a justice of the peace, the original Institution thereof, with the Commission at large, and the Alterations and Amendments that have from time to time been made therein; the manner and order of proceeding in the general quarter-sessions and special sessions. The office and duty of a coroner, churchwardens overseers of the poor, vestry and vestry-clerk, and other ward and parish officers; Appeal to the Sessions, and the Form thereof; also of settlements, informations, indictments in capital and other offences, with an Account of Accessaries before and after the Fact; the laws of highways, landlords and tenants, masters, apprentices and servants, game, and gaming-houses, inns, innkeepers, musick-houses. To whic are added, the most useful precedents of warrants, commitments, &c. With notes and observations according to the statute and common laws of this kingdom, digested under proper Titles in Alphabetical Order, purposely for the use of justices of the peace, mayors, town-clerks, coroners and all officers of parishes; with a Continuation of all the statutes to the end of last sessions of parliament. With a proper table to the whole. By Thomas Pearce, Esq; author of The laws and customs of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon.
Pearce, Thomas, active 1755.Date: M DCC LVI [1756]- Books
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The justice of the peace's pocket-companion: or The office and duty of a justice epitomized. Shewing what power justices of the peace have in cities and towns corporate, and other liberties, within and without their respective counties; what is to be comprised in every warrant, and to whom to be directed; the effect and purport of every commitment, and how to be concluded, and what will vitiate, and make the same void. Also shewing how prisoners taken up by the constable of the night are to be discharged, and whether any, and what fees are to be paid on such discharge. Constables, how to be chosen, and their oath. Shewing likewsie how and in what manner gaolers can receive prisoners, without subjecting themselves to penalties, and what remedy prisoners have against gaolers for ill usage. The laws of inns and innkeepers, landlords and tenants, and of the game, &c. With a collection of the most modern precedents now in use, of warrants, commitments, discharges, detainers, recognizances, informations, examinations, passes, settlements, &c. with the method of drawing them. Necessary for the immediate use and service of justices of the peace, mayors, town-clerks, constables, and others. The second edition, with an addenda of many necessary things not mentioned in the former impression, and brought down with the statues to the 24th of June 1753. By T. Pearce, gent. author of The laws and customs of the counties of Cornwall and Devon.
Pearce, Thomas, active 1755.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain. To which are Added, More than an Hundred Forms of Warrants, Summonses, Recognizances, &c. And a Complete Index or Table of Contents to the Whole. By a country magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The obligations of a justice of the peace, to be diligent in the execution of the penal-laws against prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting of a national reformation. In a letter to a friend.
Date: 1705]