The modern justice : containing the business of a justice of peace, in all its parts : as an abridgment of the common law, and of the acts of Parliament relating to justices of peace, constables, and other parish officers under them, compleat down to this time; and some special cases in law to illustrate the same : with great variety of the best approved and authentick precedents of precepts, summons, warrants, examinations, commitments, &c. regularly interspersed, fitting all occasions for putting of the laws in force : to which is added, a particular account of the constitution and government of a considerable work-house for employing and maintaining of the poor within the city of Bristol, as settled by act of Parliament, with precedents relating to it : an alphabetical table, shewing what acts of Parliament do concern the business of a justice : with a compleat table to the whole, and particular marginal heads, &c. throughout ; in a more informing method than in any other book extant on this subject /
by: Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744
Published: (1717)
