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. - fourth edition. By John Impey, of the Inner-Temple, Author of the New Instructor Clericalis, in the Court of King's-Bench and Common-Pleas.

Date:

1797