Assertion: watchman's duty | /r/HasProperty | transferred to the other
Facets:
value: throughout the successive steps in legislation
type: TEMPORAL
value: from one form of office
type: OTHER
value: consequently
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Consequently, throughout the successive steps in legislation which led to the institution of the office of police, the duties, as well as the powers, of constables have been transferred from one form of office to the other, so that, while formerly it was the imperative duty of the common-law constable to preserve the "King's peace," it is no less today the imperative duty of the police officer to preserve the "peace of the commonwealth.