THE PRACTICAL JUSTICE OF PEACE: or, A Treatise shewing the Power and Authority of that Office in all its Branches. Extracted from the several Books hitherto written on that Subject, and digested under proper Titles, in an Alphabetical Method. To which are added, Great Variety of the most useful Precedents, inserted under their proper Heads, and brought down to this present Year 1728. Together with an Alphabetical Table of all the Statutes which relate to the Titles contained in this Work, and of the Titles themselves. The Whole fitted for the Use of Justices of Peace, Coroners, Sheriffs, Clerks of Assize, and of the Peace, Commissioners of Sewers, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of Highways, Churchwardens, and others. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq) for Tho. Ward in the Inner Temple Lane, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Two volume set. Original full calf bindings. Three out of four hinges were archivally re-hinged. Gold-embossed leather spine labels were added..... More