Officium vicecomitum: the office and authority of sherifs : gathered out of the statutes and books of the common laws of this kingdom, corrected and very much enlarged : to which is added An appendix or supplement, containing a collection of the statutes touching sheriffs made since Mr. Dalton's writing, which are in force and use at this day, several special returns of writs, and the expositions, judgements and resolutions of the reverend and learned judges, in the several courts at Westminster, upon divers statutes, cases and questions in law relating to sherifs, and several other new matters : the whole, being a work of great use and profit, not only to the students and practitioners in the law, but to all other the gentry of this land, (on whom the burthen of this office lyeth) especially to all immediate high-sheriffs and under-sheriffs : with a new and copious table, wherein the defects and imperfections of the old table are suppressed and amended, the new matter is inserted in the table, under their proper heads, and have this mark * set before them.
by: Dalton, Michael, -1648?
Published: (1977)
