The debtor's pocket guide, in cases of arrest; containing cautions and instructions against the imposition and extortion of the serjeant at mace, bailiff, goaler, &c. Shewing, How a Person is to conduct himself on an Arrest: The Sheriff's Power in taking or refusing Bail: The Remedy a Person has against an Officer for Extortion on taking Bail, or for any Severity or III-usage to a Person in his Custody, or in a Lock-up House: The Charges such Houses have a Right to make under the Statutes and Rules of the superior Courts made for that Purpose, with the Remedy against them if they exceed their Bounds: The Method of putting in and perfecting Bail above on the Return of the Writ, to prevent the Bail being fixed, and the Plaintiff obtaining an Assignment of the Bail-Bond; with an Account of the Fees the Sheriff and his Officers are entitled to on different Process. The best and most approved Method of bringing the Writ of Habens Corpus, with plain and apt Instructions for conducting and executing the same, with the real Expences thereof as settled by the Master and Prothonotaries of the respective Courts. To which are added, directions for procuring the rules of the King's-Bench and Fleet-Prisons, with the Expences attending the same. By an old practitioner.

Date:

1776