Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace, In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law, And of All the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace, Constables, and Other Parish Officers Under Them, Compleat Down to this Time; And Some Special Law-Cases to Illustrate the Same. With Great Variety of the Most Authentick Precedents of Precepts, Summons, Warrants, Examinations, Commitments, Indictments, &c. Regularly Interspersed, Fitting all Occasions for Putting of the Laws in Force. Also the Chairman's Charge in the Quarter-Sessions; Proceedings in Trying of Criminals, Motions and Trials of Causes Relating to Settlements, &c. And the Particular Power of Mayors, Given by Statute, with Precedents of Warrants, &
Published by London Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Saper, Esq;) for B. Lintot at the Cross-Keys in Fleet Street 1720 Third and last edition, 1720
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Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, CanadaAquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC
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(6), 502, [42], 2, 48, 33 - 60 pp. Octavo. Original full polished calf binding. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Five raised bands. Title in gilt on a red Morocco label on one of the panels of the spine. Edges trimmed, somewhat dust soiled. Some staining and foxing at the extremities of the volume, but clean internally. Old vertical crease on the title page. Former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Includes a forty six page table. Previous editions of this book were released in 1717 and 1718. Legal matters addressed in this edition include perjury, polygamy, warrant against bakers selling bread underweight, and "Poor Law", which address workhouses and social justice for people living in poverty in the eighteenth century. As a note of provenance, the bookplate on the pastedown of this volume is from the library of the Duke of Buccleugh.
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- Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace, In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law, And of All the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace, Constables, and Other Parish Officers Under Them, Compleat Down to this Time; And Some Special Law-Cases to Illustrate the Same. With Great Variety of the Most Authentick Precedents of Precepts, Summons, Warrants, Examinations, Commitments, Indictments, &c. Regularly Interspersed, Fitting all Occasions for Putting of the Laws in Force. Also the Chairman's Charge in the Quarter-Sessions; Proceedings in Trying of Criminals, Motions and Trials of Causes Relating to Settlements, &c. And the Particular Power of Mayors, Given by Statute, with Precedents of Warrants, &
- Author
- Jacob, Giles
- Publisher
- London Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Saper, Esq;) for B. Lintot at the Cross-Keys in Fleet Street 1720 Third and last edition
- Publication year
- 1720
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- Hardcover
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- Justice, Law
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