The office and authority of a justice of peace
Subtitle: and also the duty of sheriffs, coroners, church-wardens, surveiors of highways, constables, and officers of militia : together with precedents of warrants, judgments, executions, and other legal process, issuable by magistrates within their respective jurisdictions, in cases civil or criminal : and the method of judicial proceedings, before justices of peace, in matters within their cognisance out of sessions
By: collected from the common and statute laws of England, and acts of Assembly, now in force; and adapted to the constitution and practice of Virginia.
Contributors: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by William Parks
Published: 1736
Place of publication: Williamsburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Justices of the peace -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Justice of peace
Notes: Evans 4101
Cohen, M.L.  Bib. of early Amer. law, 8473
Signatures: A⁴ chi1 B-2A⁸.
Includes index.