The Universal Officer of Justice. Containing the General Power and Authority by Law, of the several Officers and Ministers following, viz. 1. Of Justice of Peace. 2. Of Clerks of the Peace...... 5. Of Hawkers and Pedlars...... 12. Of Constables, &c. 13. Of Church-wardens and Sidesmen. 14. Of Vestry-men. 15. Of Overseers of the Poor. 16. And Surveyors of the Highways. The Whole being collected from all the Books of our Common and Statute Laws written on the Subjects. And render'd generally Useful to all Sorts of Persons
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[London] In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;), 1730. First Edition, no fly-leaf, title slightly soiled with a piece of the blank bottom corner missing with no loss of text, upper and lower blank margins of the text wormed in places not affecting the text but touching the headlines on 8pp., with 2 final advertisement leaves, [4], 336, [8] pp., contemporary calf, lower hinge cracked. The ESTC locates 5 copies only, at the Bodleian Library, University of Essex, California State University, Harvard Law Library and the Newberry Library.
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- The Universal Officer of Justice. Containing the General Power and Authority by Law, of the several Officers and Ministers following, viz. 1. Of Justice of Peace. 2. Of Clerks of the Peace...... 5. Of Hawkers and Pedlars...... 12. Of Constables, &c. 13. Of Church-wardens and Sidesmen. 14. Of Vestry-men. 15. Of Overseers of the Poor. 16. And Surveyors of the Highways. The Whole being collected from all the Books of our Common and Statute Laws written on the Subjects. And render'd generally Useful to all Sorts of Persons
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- [London] In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;), 1730
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- Leaves
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- Cracked
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- Calf
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