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The compleat sheriff in theory and practice; shewing the importance, nature, and duty, of that high office; and also that of the under-sheriff, bailiff, and other subordinate officers, in executing Process, taking Bail, collecting Fines due to the King, &c. With Precedents of All Manner of Writs used and brought on Suits prosecuted in the Sheriff's County-Courts, Court of Tourn, and Hundred Court, taken from the Register of Writs. To which is added, the office and duty of a coroner. The whole illustrated with ap cases of practice on the different Heads; selected from the most modern Law and Equity Reporters.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- E-books
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Intricacies of the law concerning persons political and offices of law, stated and explained, in the case of the political persons and person, sheriffs and sheriff of London, and the Political Persons and Person, Sheriffs and Sheriff of Middlesex, In the Offices of Keeping the Shires of London and Middlesex, and of Executing the Process of the Superiour Courts, and The Charge of Prisoners by Virtue of the Process; and also By Virtue of the Precepts of the Courts of the City of London. By Isaac Howse, One of the Clerks to Francis Cooper, Esq; one of the Secondaries to the Sheriffs of London
Howse, IsaacDate: 1729- E-books
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The compleat sheriff: wherein is set forth, his office and authority; with directions, how and in what Manner to execute the same, according to the Common and Statute Laws of this Kingdom, which are now in Force and Use And the Judgments and Resolutions of the Judges in divers late Cases in the several Courts of Westminster, relating thereunto. likewise of under-sheriffs and their Deputies; and where the High-Sheriff shall be Answerable for their Defaults, and where not, &c. Together with the Learning of Bail-Bonds; with an Explication of Stat. 23 H. 6. cap. 10. and Pleadings thereon. Retorns of Writs, Remedies against Non Retorn and Faux Retorn, Habeas Corpus, Venires, Challenges and Enquiry of Damages. Prisoners and Prisons. Execution by Fleri fac', Elegit, &c. Escapes, Actions and Pleadings therein. Fresh Pursuit, and other Pleas. Attachment, Amerciament: Actions, Declarations and Pleadings on the Sheriffs Non-Feasance or Male-Feasance. Customs of London, as to Prisons, Courts, Process, Sheriffs Fees, Extortion, Sheriffs Accompts, &c. To which is added, the office and duty of coroners, and many Modern Adjudged Cases relating to the Office of a Sheriff to this Time, &c.
Date: 1710- E-books
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The compleat sheriff wherein is set forth, his office and authority; with directions, how and in what manner to execute the same, ... Likewise of under-sheriffs and their deputies; ... Together with the learning of bail-bonds; ... To which is added, the office and duty of coroners, ..
Date: 1727- E-books
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A letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor : occasioned by His Lordship's nomination of five persons, disqualified by act of Parliament, as fit and proper persons to serve the office of Sheriffs : in which the nature and design of the Corporation Act is impartially considered and stated.
Samuel ChandlerDate: 1738