The compleat justice of the peace, and parish officer: shewing the authority and power of a justice of the peace, the original Institution thereof, with the Commission at large, and the Alterations and Amendments that have from time to time been made therein; the manner and order of proceeding in the general quarter-sessions and special sessions. The office and duty of a coroner, churchwardens overseers of the poor, vestry and vestry-clerk, and other ward and parish officers; Appeal to the Sessions, and the Form thereof; also of settlements, informations, indictments in capital and other offences, with an Account of Accessaries before and after the Fact; the laws of highways, landlords and tenants, masters, apprentices and servants, game, and gaming-houses, inns, innkeepers, musick-houses. To whic are added, the most useful precedents of warrants, commitments, &c. With notes and observations according to the statute and common laws of this kingdom, digested under proper Titles in Alphabetical Order, purposely for the use of justices of the peace, mayors, town-clerks, coroners and all officers of parishes; with a Continuation of all the statutes to the end of last sessions of parliament. With a proper table to the whole. By Thomas Pearce, Esq; author of The laws and customs of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearce, Thomas, fl. 1755.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justices of the peace--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Justices of the peace.

Criminal procedure--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Criminal procedure.

Great Britain--Officials and employees--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2], 485, [41] p. )

Other Title:

Compleat justice of the peace,

Place of Publication:

[London] : In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, law-printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen, at the Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, M DCC LVI [1756]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]² (-A1) B-2L⁸ (-2L8).

Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T184685.

OCLC:

642507856