The office of sheriff, shewing its history and antiquity: The Manner of appointing the High Sheriff, his Under Sheriff, and other Deputies; together with their respective Powers and Duties:-Particularly with Regard to the County-Court, Sessions, Circuit, Arrests on mesne Process, Bail, Juries, Executions, Escapes, Rescues and Replevins. To which are added, the mode of electing coroners, and returning Members of Parliament: with many useful Precedents, of Returns to Writs, and Proceedings in the County-Court, &c. calculated not only for the Benefit of Sheriffs, their Under Sheriffs and Deputies, but also for the Use of the Profession in General, and a copious index. By John Impey, Of the Inner Temple, Author of the New Instructor Clericalis, in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas.

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M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]