The Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace.: And also, the duty of sheriffs, coroners, constables, churchwardens, overseers of roads and other officers. : Together with precedents of warrants, judgments, executions and other legal process, issuable by magistrates within their several jurisdictions, in cases civil and criminal, with the method of judicial proceedings before justices of the peace out of sessions. also some directions for their conduct within their county courts. : To which is added, an appendix containing many useful precedents, and directions for the execution of them. : Collected from the common and statute laws of England, and the acts of assembly of this province, and adapted to our constitution and practice.
Newbern, North Carolina: Printed by James Davis, 1774. [4], 404, [3] pp.. Full Leather binding, with boards slightly bowed and hinges tender. A good deal of tanning and foxing within the text. Also a good amount of 18th-century period writing in various places throughout, with the majority near the first and the last leaves. Part of the upper right corner of most the pages has been worn away. While this doesn't affect the text, it does affect the page numbers. Lacks the front free flyleaf, book opens to the first page being the title page. Not Ex-Lib. Housed in a beautiful maroon custom clamshell box with suede lining and gilt-titled leather spine label.
An exceptionally SCARCE pre-Revolutionary North Carolina printing of this important book of legal procedures and precedents, which appeared in various forms throughout the colonies and in England. The R.L.G. Union Catalogue lists only two copies, at the Library of Congress and Harvard, and both of those are imperfect, having four of the pages in signature E (pp. 25-32) duplicated, the others lacking. The present copy is complete and collated correctly. Item #100610
Price: $14,500.00