@article{557992,
      recid = {557992},
      author = {Pearce, Thomas,},
      title = {The compleat justice of the peace, and parish officer:  shewing the authority and power of a justice of the peace,  the original Institution thereof, with the Commission at  large, and the Alterations and Amendments that have from  time to time been made therein; the manner and order of  proceeding in the general quarter-sessions and special  sessions. The office and duty of a coroner, churchwardens  overseers of the poor, vestry and vestry-clerk, and other  ward and parish officers; Appeal to the Sessions, and the  Form thereof; also of settlements, informations,  indictments in capital and other offences, with an Account  of Accessaries before and after the Fact; the laws of  highways, landlords and tenants, masters, apprentices and  servants, game, and gaming-houses, inns, innkeepers,  musick-houses. To whic are added, the most useful  precedents of warrants, commitments, &c. With notes and  observations according to the statute and common laws of  this kingdom, digested under proper Titles in Alphabetical  Order, purposely for the use of justices of the peace,  mayors, town-clerks, coroners and all officers of parishes;  with a Continuation of all the statutes to the end of last  sessions of parliament. With a proper table to the whole.  By Thomas Pearce, Esq; author of The laws and customs of  the Counties of Cornwall and Devon. [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, law-printer to the  King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen, at the Homer's  Head, near Temple-Bar,},
      address = {[London] :},
      pages = {[2], 485, [41] p. ;},
      year = {1756},
      note = {Signatures: [A]² (-A1) B-2L⁸ (-2L8).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/557992},
}