Justices of the peace - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Le juge à paix, et officier de paroisse, pour la province de Quebec . Extrait de Richard Burn, chancellier du diocèse de Charlisle, & un des juges à paix de Sa Majesté, pour les comtés de Westmorland & Cumberland. Traduit par Jos. F. Perrault.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX.[1789]- E-books
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Cases in law: wherein justices of peace have a jurisdiction, as well by their commission, as by Act of Parliament, ... from Edward the Third's time to this day: as they are reported in the year-books, and all the other reports down to this time. With the addition of some modern cases, ... Being the second part of The justice of peace's companion. By Samuel Blackerby, ..
Blackerby, S. (Samuel), fl. 1712-1749.Date: 1717- E-books
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The magistrate's assistant or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain. To which are Added, More than an Hundred Forms of Warrants, Summonses, Recognizances, &c. And a Complete Index or Table of Contents to the Whole. By a country magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- E-books
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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.
Pearce, Thomas, fl. 1755.Date: M DCC LVI [1756]- E-books
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An appendix to the seventeenth edition of Dr. Burn's justice of the peace, and parish office. Containing All the Acts of Parliament and Adjudged Cases which relate to the Office of a Justice of the Peace, from 32 Geo. III. to the present Time. By John Burn, Esq. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
Burn, John, 1744?-1802.Date: [1795]