The South-Carolina justice of peace
Subtitle: containing all the duties, powers and authorities of that office, as regulated by the laws now of force in this state, and adapted to the parish and county magistrate. : To which is added, a great variety of warrants, indictments and other precedents, interspersed under their several heads, and a summary of several of the decisions which have been had in the courts of this state. : Volume. I[-III]. : Entered in the secretary's office of the state of South-Carolina, 11th October, 1788, agreeable to the act of Assembly in that case made and provided, entitled "An act for the encouragement of arts and sciences." Ratified the 26th of March, 1784. Peter Freneau, secretary
Contributors: Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819, comp; Pinckney, Thomas, 1750-1828, dedicatee
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 50061
Publisher: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, at Pope's Head in Market-Street.
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Justices of the peace -- South Carolina; Justices of the peace -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; South Carolina -- Politics and government
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: Compiled by John Fauchereaud Grimké. Cf. The Dictionary of American biography

Dedicated to Thomas Pinckney

Also issued in a single volume (Evans 21472). The three-volume issue is interleaved

Vol. 1: viii, 168 p.; v. 2: [2], 169-344 p.; v. 3: [2], 345-510, [2] p

Error in paging: p. 210-216 misnumbered 110-116

"Table of contents."--v. 3, p. [511-512]

Not in Evans or Bristol

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 50061)