The Country Justice; Containing the Practice, Duty, and Power of the Justices of Peace, as Well in as Out of Their Sessions. Wherein All the Statutes and Cases in Law, That in Any Wise Relate to the Jurisdiction and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, are Carefully Collected and Digested Under Proper Titles. By Michael Dalton of Lincolns-Inn, Esq; And One of the Masters in Chancery. And, for the Better Help of Such Justices of Peace, as Have Not Been Much Conversant in the Study of the Laws of This Realm, There is Added, an Appendix; Being, a Compleat Summary of All the Acts of Parliament, Shewing the Various Penalties of the Offences by Statute, and the Particular Power of One, Two, Three, or More Justices in Their Proceedings and Determinations, Under Several Distinct Heads, in Alphabetical Order. To the Whole are Annexed Large Tables of the Principal Matters Therein Contained. By William Nelson of the Middle Temple, Esq; In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, MDCCXXVII (1727).
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Size: 215 x 330 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(3), h.t., t.p., 18pp., 679pp., 155pp., (2)]
Full brown calf with blind-stamped designs to both boards. Binding worn with rubbing and scuffing, small fragments of leather lacking in a few placed and/or peeling, more prominent wear to the rear board. Small pieces of paper attached to the rear board. Tailcap worn and partially detached. Both boards attached with joints and hinges starting, thus fragile. No attached bookplates or ownership inscriptions. Leather peeling from the inside of the boards. Lacking pastedowns. Text block very clean with occasional foxing. Some damp staining to the last few leaves. Half title creased. Very small number of edge tears. Small number of leaves unevenly trimmed so they are sticking out of the page block.
[OCLC 1205332406].
