The practical justice of peace, and parish and ward-officer
Subtitle: or a treatise shewing the present power and authority of these officers, in all the branches of their duty : contrived to answer not only all the purposes of these officers, but also of all others who have any concern in county, parish, or ward-business ...
By: by Joseph Shaw ...
Contributors: Middleton, Henry, 1717-1784, inscriber; Middleton, Arthur, 1742-1787, inscriber
Edition: The sixth edition, corrected and very much enlarged by the three following improvements, I. New cases from the late reports, II. A continuation of all the statutes to the end of the last session of Parliament, III. A new and copious table first added to this edition, which now renders the whole book quite intelligible and useful to the meanest capacity.
Publisher: Printed by Henry Lintot ... for James Hodges ... and Edward Wicksteed ...
Published: 1756
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Politics and government; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800..; Justices of the peace
Notes: "A work undertaken at the instance of the late Lord Chancellor King (to whom it is dedicated) and carried on under the occasional inspection of the late Sir John Fortescue-Aland, Solicitor General, one of the barons of the Exchequer, one of the justices of the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas to his late and present Majesty, and afterwards Lord Fortescue."

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