A compendium of the laws ...
Subtitle: the whole illustrated with great variety of cases, and the best modern precedents, useful for justices of peace, barresters, and other practitioners of the law : with an exact table to the whole
By: by W.O., Esq.
Contributors: Great Britain.
Publisher: Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq., for D. Browne ... W. Mears ... and T. Ward ...
Published: 1712
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Poor laws -- Great Britain.; Vagrancy -- Great Britain.; Robbery -- Great Britain.; Game laws -- Great Britain.; Police regulations -- Great Britain.
Notes: NUC pre-1956 (suppl.), NSC 0099338
A collection of treatises by W.O., Esq. In later editions, author's name appears on t.p. as: T.O., Esq.
Signatures: A⁶ B-N¹² O⁶.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Concerning local settlements, shewing how they may be gained, either by masters or servants occasionally removing from town to town, or from one parish to another, with observations upon the late act, for placing out apprentices, clerks, &c.; title: II. The laws for the preservation of the game, and those relating to gamesters, as they are now regulated by the late acts; title: III. Concerning the laws against highway-men, house-breakers, &c. with directions for prosecuting such notorious offenders by appeal, indictment, hue-and-cry, also how actions are to be brought against the hundreds, &c.