Item #100234 The Office and Duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a Guide to Sheriffs, Coroners, Clerks, Constables, and Other Civil Officers, According to the Laws of North-Carolina; With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of This State, the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments thereto; and a Collection of the Most Approved Forms. Henry Potter.
The Office and Duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a Guide to Sheriffs, Coroners, Clerks, Constables, and Other Civil Officers, According to the Laws of North-Carolina; With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of This State, the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments thereto; and a Collection of the Most Approved Forms
The Office and Duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a Guide to Sheriffs, Coroners, Clerks, Constables, and Other Civil Officers, According to the Laws of North-Carolina; With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of This State, the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments thereto; and a Collection of the Most Approved Forms

The Office and Duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a Guide to Sheriffs, Coroners, Clerks, Constables, and Other Civil Officers, According to the Laws of North-Carolina; With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of This State, the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments thereto; and a Collection of the Most Approved Forms

Raleigh, Noth Carolina: Printed by and for Joseph Gales, 1816. 418 pp. Hardcover in original leather binding. Boards are scuffed, soiled, worn and barely attached. Top half of spine cover is lacking. Text is foxed throughout. First edition (a second edition appeared in 1828).

The author was serving as a judge on the United States District Court for North Carolina when this work was published; earlier North Carolina Justices were printed in New Bern (1774 and 1791) and Halifax (1800). American Imprints 38692. Thornton 11012.

SCARCE early North Carolina imprint. Not Ex-Lib. Item #100234

Price: $1,250.00

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