Justices of the peace - Handbooks, manuals, etc
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The Conductor generalis: or, The office , duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c. Compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books, on those subjects, by James Parker, late one of the justices of the peace for Middlesex County, in New-Jersey; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America. By a gentleman of the law. The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles. To which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States; and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.
Date: 1792- E-journals
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Conductor generalis: or, The office , duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury-men, and overseers of the poor. As also the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c. Collected out of all the books hitherto written on those subjects, whether of common or statute-law. The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles. To which is added, a collection out of Sir Mathew Hales, concerning the descent of lands; with several choice maxims in law, and the office of mayors, &c.
Date: 1750- E-books
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The practical justice of the peace and parish-officer, of His Majesty's province of South-Carolina . By William Simpson, one of the assistant judges of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, Assize, &c. of the said province.
Simpson, William, fl. 1761.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- E-books
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Burn's abridgment, or the American justice containing the whole practice, authority and duty of justices of the peace; with correct forms of precedents relating thereto, and adapted to the present situation of the United States.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- E-books
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The Massachusetts justice being a collection of the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, relative to the power and duty of justices of the peace. Alphabetically arranged, in two parts. Part I. --The power and duty of the justices of the Court of General Sessions o the peace. Part II. --The power and duty of justices of the peace, in their separate capacity. To which are added, under the proper heads, a variety of forms, grounded on said laws. The whole intended for the use of those who practise in the office of a justice, to assist them in the various dutie thereto belonging. With an appendix, containing short and concise rules for changing pounds, shillings, pence and farthings, into dollars, cents and milles, which a late law has introduced as the money of account.-- Also, rules for computing interest in such money, and sundry useful tables respecting the same. To all which an index is annexed. By Samuel Freeman, Esq. compiler of the Town officer, Probate auxiliary, and American clerk's magazine. --Published according to act of Congress.--.
Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831.Date: 1795