A Practical Treatise Upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in Criminal Prosecutions: To which are Now Added Precedents of Declarations and Pleadings in Civil Actions, Part 261

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Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1828 - Justices of the peace - 471 pages
 

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Page 279 - So, if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot...
Page 347 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King.
Page 328 - Copies of the process shall be returned as speedily as may be into the clerk's office of such court, together with the recognizances of the witnesses for their appearance to testify in the case.
Page 12 - Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation...
Page 227 - JS on the day and year aforesaid, and on divers other days* and times between that day and the day of the taking of this inquisition, at the...
Page 327 - that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 280 - Hundred forty six with force and arms at and in the County of Sampson aforesaid in and upon one Alfred Flowers in the peace of God and of the State then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an assault...
Page 362 - Service may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Page 140 - Given under my hand and seal, this day of , in the year of our Lord , at , in the [county] aforesaid.

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