The compleat justice of the peace, and parish officer : shewing the authority and power of a justice of the peace, ... the manner and order of proceeding in the general quarter-sessions and special sessions. The office and duty of a coroner, churchwardens overseers of the poor, vestry and vestry-clerk, and other ward and parish officers; ... also of settlements, informations, indictments in capital and other offences, ... the laws of highways, landlords and tenants, masters, apprentices and servants, game, and gaming-houses, inns, innkeepers, musick-houses. To which are added, the most useful precedents of warrants, commitments, &c. With notes and observations according to the statute and common laws of this kingdom, ... purposely for the use of justices of the peace, mayors, town-clerks, coroners and all officers of parishes; ... all the statutes to the end of last sessions of parliament. With a proper table to the whole. By Thomas Pearce, Esq; author of The laws and customs of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon.
| Author/creator | Pearce, Tho |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [London] : In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, law-printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen, at the Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, M DCC LVI [1756] |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, 485 pages, 41 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | Signatures: [A]² (-A1) B-2L⁸ (-2L8). |
| General note | Reproduction of original from the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT184685. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements |
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