The office and authority of sheriffs, under-sheriffs, deputies, county-clerks, and coroners, in Ireland
Subtitle: collected from the books of common law, and also from the acts of parliament of force in this kingdom, touching this subject ... digested under alphabetical titles
By: by Matt. Dutton
Publisher: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, bookseller, at the corner of Castle-lane in Dames-street
Published: 1721
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 697
Subjects: Sheriffs; Coroners; Early works to 1800; Procedure (Law)
Notes: "... Wherein is shewed, the nature of writs with their returns, arrests, escapes, rescous, posse comitatus, bail and bail-bonds, fees, extortion, false imprisonment, accounts, county court and turn, distresses, replevin, avowry, ejectment, forcible entry, riot, outlawry, excommunication, courtesie of England, dower, joynture, jurors, bailiffs, goalers, prisoners, remedies for and against sheriffs, cases and rules about respondeat superior, bribery, barretry, embracery, champerty, maintenance, forgery, perjury, couts of law, spiritual courts, proceedings in equity, as to the process of those courts, with many other things relating to the practice of the law, as also to the office of justices of the peace".

Signatures: a⁴ b²(-b2) A-4S⁴ 4T²(-4T2).

ESTC T179479