A treatise of distresses, replevins, and avowries, in the courts at Westminster, county-courts, hundred-courts, &c.
Subtitle: containing the common and statute law for securing the payment of rents, and preventing frauds by tenants, with plain and easy directions how to distrain for rent, form of the notice to the tenant, inventory, appraiser's oath, &c. : also divers statutes touching the office of the sheriffs, and passing their patents and accounts, and instructions to sheriffs concerning Parliamentary elections.
Contributors: Strange, John, Sir, 1696-1754.; Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811, former owner.
Edition: The fourth edition, brought down to the beginning of the reign of King George the Third, to which is added, The office of the coroner, and many new references to Sir John Strange's reports.
Publisher: Printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot ... for J. Worrall ...
Published: 1761
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Distress (Law) -- Great Britain; Replevin -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Sheriffs -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Election law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Coroners -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Coroner's guide, or, The office and duty of a coroner; Coroner's guide.
Notes: Signatures: A⁴ a² B-L⁸ M1, ²A-I⁴.

Includes index.

LC copy imperfect: wanting signature A1 of second gathering.

ESTC T72497

Bookplate of Samuel Chase. Gift from Peabody LIbrary Association, Dec. 15, 1930.