The compleat justice of the peace, and parish officer: shewing the authority and power of a justice of the peace, the original Institution thereof, with the Commission at large, and the Alterations and Amendments that have from time to time been made therein; the manner and order of proceeding in the general quarter-sessions and special sessions. The office and duty of a coroner, churchwardens overseers of the poor, vestry and vestry-clerk, and other ward and parish officers; Appeal to the Sessions, and the Form thereof; also of settlements, informations, indictments in capital and other offences, with an Account of Accessaries before and after the Fact; the laws of highways, landlords and tenants, masters, apprentices and servants, game, and gaming-houses, inns, innkeepers, musick-houses. To whic are added, the most useful precedents of warrants, commitments, &c. With notes and observations according to the statute and common laws of this kingdom, digested under proper Titles in Alphabet

People / Organizations

• Thomas Pearce (Author)
• William Owen ("printed for")

Imprint

London] : In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, law-printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen, at the Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, M DCC LVI [1756

Publication year

1756

ESTC No.

T184685

Grub Street ID

220998

Description

[2], 485, [41] p. ; 8°.

Note

Signatures: [A]]2] (-A1) B-2L]8] (-2L8).

Uncontrolled note

Verify pagination and register; L copy wanting A1 and 2L8 (blank?)