Judicial officer elected or appointed to keep the peace and perform minor civic jobs
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Parish law, or, A guide to justices of the peace, ministers, church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of the highways, vestry-clerks, and all others concerned in parish business : compiled from the common, statute, and other authentick books as also from some adjudged cases never before published together with correct forms of warrants, commitments, indictments, presentments, convictions, &c. to which is added a choice collection of precedents for justices of the peace, communicated by an able hand with a new and correct table / by Joseph Shaw.
Joseph ShawDate: 1743
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A crowd of injured men being helped into a public office by family and friends, who appear to be campaigning on their behalf. Etching attributed to G. Cruikshank.
George CruikshankReference: 12094i
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A Directory of justices in England and Wales, appointed under the Lunacy Act, 1890, to make orders for the reception of private patients. 1890-91 / by Henry Sutherland, M.D.
Sutherland, Henry.Date: 1890
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Magistrates and coroners. Report of a select committee of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Southampton, appointed at the midsummer quarter session, 1857, and a letter from the County coroners in reply.
Date: 1857
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A Chinese man with bound hands, surrounded by a guard holding a chain and a guard holding a stick, is kneeling before a magistrate seated at his desk and his two assistants. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579682i