The office and authority of a justice of peace
Subtitle: collected out of all the books, whether of common or statute-law, hitherto written on that subject : shewing also the duty of constables, commissioners of sewers, coroners, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, church-wardens, and other parish officers : digested under alphabetical titles : to which are added English precedents of indictments, warrants, &c., never before printed : very useful for justices of the peace, coroners, sheriffs, clerks of the assizes and of the peace, and of all others concern'd in such matters
By: by W. Nelson, of the Middle Temple, Esq. ; in two volumes
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The eleventh edition, corrected, amended and continued down to this present year ; with an introduction, shewing the antiquity and authority of justices of the peace by the common and statute law ; also, a large appendix and two tables, one of the general heads, and the other of the precedents under each head.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for R. Gosling, W. Mears, T. Woodward, F. Clay, B. Motte and C. Bathurst, D. Browne, C. Ward and R. Chandler, T. Waller, and H. Lintot
Published: 1736
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Justices of the peace
Notes: Author statement appears after edition statement.

Vol. 1: xlvii, [1], 572 p.; v. 2: [4], 308, [260] p.

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

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1967

English short title catalogue, entry T131320

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials at signatures I and T in both volumes. With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplates.