Constables - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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The duty of constables containing instructions to constables, petty constables headboroughs, tythingmen, &c. In the several particulars of their office.
Date: 1798- E-books
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The compleat parish-officer containing I. The authority and proceedings of High Constables, Petty-Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties, pursuant to Acts of Parliament: with the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens; how chosen, their particular Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accompts, and the Laws and Statutes concerning the Church in all Cases; and also an Abstract of the Act for building fifty new Churches in London and Westminster, &c. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing, and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. Of surveyors of the highways and scavengers how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others; with the Methods of Taxation, Laws of the Highways, &c. Together with the statutes relating to hackney-coaches and Chairs, &c. The third edition: to which is added, The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. His then Majesty's Attorney-General, in the Year of our Lord 1610. declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office.
Jacob, Giles 1686-1744.Date: 1723- E-books
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The Oath of a constable, so far as it relates to his apprehending night-walkers, and idle persons, and his presenting offences contrary to the statutes made against unlawful gaming, tipling, and drukenness, and for the suppressing of them
Date: 1701- E-books
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A new guide for constables, head-boroughs, tythingmen, churchwardens , Overseers and Collectors for the Poor, Surveyors for Amending the Highways and Bridges, with Directions for Keepers of Fairs and Markets, and Treasurers for the Relief of poor Maimed Soldiers and Mariners. Containing, not only whatsoever may be useful to them in the execution of their several offices, that is already Extant, in any Book of this Kind, but also the heads of all those statutes which do concern any of the said offices that have been since made, in the Reigns of the late King Charles, King James, their Majesties King William, and Queen Mary, and of King William the Third; and continued down to the last Session of Parliament the 3d. of April, 1705. of her present Majesty Queen Arne, so that this Treatise is the most Compleat of any other of this Nature whatsoever yet Published. Collected by J. P. Gent.
J. P., Gent.Date: 1705- E-books
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The constable's sure guide or, every constable his own lawyer. Containing all the law now in force concerning the business and duty of that officer; including all the Acts of Parliament, and adjudged Cases in the different Law Courts, respecting the Office of Constable. Viz. 1. Who are, and who are not liable to serve the Office of Constable, and what is the Punishment for those who are eligible and refuse to serve. 2. How and when chosen, appointed, sworn, and removed. 3. How far a Constable's Power and Authority extends without a Warrant. 4. His Power and Duty particularly explained in executing Warrants. 5. How far a Constable is favoured and protected in his Office, or liable to be punished for Neglect of Duty. 6. Concerning his Expences, Account, and Removal from his Office. 7. Concerning his Accompt and Removal. 8. The whole Law concerning Constables, in the City of London in particular. 9. Also the Laws respecting Constables in the City and Liberty of Westminster. 10. The Act of Parliament for billeting and quartering Soldiers. 11. The Act of Parliament passed for impresting Soldiers and Seamen. Together with variety of other articles concerning the duty of a constable; the whole containing such ample Instructions that, if attended to, he cannot incur any Penalty or Censure in the Execution of his troublesome and perilous Office; the Constable being chosen and removed annually, it is not to be supposed that he can, in the Course of one Year, obtain a sufficient Knowledge of his duty, without such a Monitor. A Work also necessary to be consulted by the Public in general, as a Check to those Constables, who, either from Ignorance or Design, exceed the Power they are invested with. To which is now added a complete index. The second edition, corrected and improved. By Charles Hallifax, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn.
Hallifax, CharlesDate: 1791