The South-Carolina justice of peace : containing all the duties, powers and authorities of that office, as regulated by the laws now of force in this state, and adapted to the parish and county magistrate. : To which is added, a great variety of warrants, indictments and other precedents, interspersed under their several heads, and a summary of several of the decisions which have been had in the courts of this state. : Entered in the secretary's office of the state of South-Carolina, 11th October, 1788, agreeable to the act of Assembly in that case made and provided, entitled "An act for the encouragement of arts and sciences." Ratified the 26th of March, 1784. Peter Freneau, secretary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819, compiler.

Pinckney, Thomas, 1750-1828, dedicatee.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21472.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justices of the peace--South Carolina.

Justices of the peace--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Justices of the peace.

South Carolina--Politics and government.

South Carolina.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 510 pages, 2 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by R. Aitken and Son, at Pope's Head in Market-Street., M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Compiled by John Fauchereaud Grimké. Cf. The Dictionary of American biography.

Dedicated to Thomas Pinckney.

Also issued in three volumes, interleaved.

Error in paging: pages 210-216 misnumbered 110-116.

"Table of contents."--p. [511-512].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 21472).

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