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    The office and authority of sheriffs , Under-Sheriffs, Deputies, County-Clerks, and Coroners, in Ireland. Collected from the books of common law; and also from the acts of Parliament of force in this kingdom, touching this subject. Wherein is shewed, The Nature of Writs with their Returns, Arrests, Escapes, Rescous, Posse Comitatus, Bail and Bail-Bonds, Fees, Extortion, False Imprisonment, Accounts, County Court and Turn, Distresses, Replevin, Avowry, Ejectment, Forcible Entry, Riot, Outlawry, Excommunication, Courtesie of England, Dower, Joynture, Jurors, Bailiffs, Goalers, Prisoners, Remedies for and against Sheriffs, Cases and Rules about respondeat Superior, Bribery, Barretry, Embracery, Champerty, Maintenance, Forgery, Perjury, Courts of Law, Spiritual Courts, Proceedings in Equity, as to the Process of those Courts; with many other things relating to the Practice of the Law, as also to the Office of Justices of the Peace. Digested under alphabetical titles. By Matt. Dutton.

    Dutton, Matt. (Matthew) | Date: 1721

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