| 1874 - 402 pages
...services of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace. Sir Edward Coke said, " The whole Christian world hath not the like office as Justice of the Peace, if duly executed." Common sense alone does not insure its being "duly executed," but we must not look for perfection in... | |
| Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1907 - 782 pages
...under the Great Seal to keep the peace within the county borough or liberty for which he is appointed. "The whole Christian world," says Lord Coke, " hath...office as justice of the peace, if duly executed." Before the reign of Edward in. conservators of the peace were chosen by the freeholders at large of... | |
| Sir Algernon West - 1908 - 302 pages
...each county dates from the fourteenth century, and Lord Coke says " that the whole Christian world hath not the like office as Justice of the Peace if duly executed." There may be a few Justices like the Shallows and the Silences of Shakespeare's time : — " In fair... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1922 - 1162 pages
...William the Conqueror, or perhaps even to the Roman age In England. •The whole Christian world," said Lord Coke, "hath not the like office as Justice of the peace If duly executed." In Colonial days It was an oltlce much less frequently bentowed than at present, 'and to hold It was... | |
| 1899 - 1064 pages
...for each county dates from the fourteenth century, and Lord Coke says 'that the whole Christian world hath not the like office as Justice of the Peace if duly executed.' There may be a few Justices like the Shallows and the Silences of Shakespeare's time : In fair round... | |
| 1922 - 870 pages
...poisonings, enchantments, sorceries, arts, magic, trespasses, forestallings, regratings, engrossings, and extortions whatsoever, and of all crimes and offenses,"...office as justice of the peace, if duly executed." The powers and duties of justices of the peace in England are now mainly governed by a series of statutes... | |
| 1899 - 1082 pages
...for each county dates from the fourteenth century, and Lord Coke says 'that the whole Christian world hath not the like office as Justice of the Peace if duly executed.' There may be a few Justices like the Shallows and the Silences of Shakespeare's time : In fair round... | |
| Harold Dexter Hazeltine - 300 pages
...that has produced the local government of their day. Lord Coke could write: "The whole Christian world hath not the like office as justice of the peace if duly executed ". To-day no observer, lawyer or other, would think of writing of the Justice of the Peace, as an instrument... | |
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