The compleat sheriff
Subtitle: wherein is set forth his office and authority, with directions how and in what manner to execute the same, according to the common and statute laws of this kingdom, which are now in force and use : and the judgments and resolutions of the judges in divers late cases in the several courts of Westminster relating thereunto, likewise of under-sheriffs and their deputies, and where the high-sheriff shall be answerable for their defaults and where not, &c. : together with the learning of : bail bonds, with an explication of Stat. 23 H. 6 cap. 10 and pleadings thereon : returns of writs, remedies against non return and faux return, habeas corpus, venire's, challenges and enquiry of damages, prisoners and prisons, execution by fieri fac', elegit, &c. : escapes, actions and pleadings therein, fresh pursuit and other pleas, attachment, amerciament, actions, declarations and pleadings on the sheriffs non-fesance or male-fesance : customs of London as to prisons, courts, process, sheriffs fees, extortion, sheriffs accounts, &c. : to which is added the office and duty of coroners, and many modern adjudged cases relating to the office of a sheriff to this time, &c
Contributors: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The third edition, with large additions.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer Esq.) for John Walthoe ...
Published: 1727
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Sheriffs; Coroners; Early works to 1800
Notes: Signatures: A⁴ a⁸ B-2L⁸.

Includes index.

Bookseller's advertisement: p. [2] in front.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1932

English short title catalogue, entry N4926

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's. With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.