The country justice: containing the practice, duty and power of the justices of the peace, as well in as out of their sessions. Wherein all the statutes and cases in law, that in any wise relate to the jurisdiction and authority of a Justice of the Peace, are carefully collected and digested under proper titles. By Michael Dalton of Lincolns-Inn, Esq; and one of the masters in Chancery. And, for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the study of the laws of this realm, there is added, an appendix; being, a compleat summary of all the acts of Parliament, shewing the various penalties of offences by statute, and the particular power of one, two, three, or more justices in their proceedings and determinations, under several distinct heads, in alphabetical order. To the whole are annexed large tables of the principal matters therein contained. By William Nelson of the Middle Temple, Esq;

Date:

M DCC XXVII. [1727]