The practical justice of peace
Subtitle: or a treatise shewing the present power and authority of that officer in all its branches : compiled from the common and statute law, and other authentick books written upon that subject, and digested under proper titles, in an alphabetical method : to which are added great variety of correct forms of the most useful precedents, inserted under their proper heads : the indictments, &c. being all judiciously render'd into English : together with an alphabetical table of all those statutes which relate to the titles contained in this work, and of the titles themselves : the whole fitted for the use of justices of peace, coroners, sheriffs, clerks of assize and of the peace, commissioners of sewers, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, ministers, church-wardens, constables and all others who have any concern in county or parish business
By: by Joseph Shaw ...
Edition: The third edition, corrected and amended, with large additions from several adjudged cases, never before published, and a continuation of all the statutes to the end of the last session of Parliament.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for Messieurs Ward and Wicksteed ...
Published: 1736
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Politics and government; Early works to 1800; Justices of the peace
Notes: Title page transposed: author statement appears after edition statement.

Vol. 1: [8], 672 p.; v. 2: [2], 688, [24] p.

Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [22-24] at end.

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