Author: Junius H. Evans

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 9781397238511

Excerpt from The Law of Magistrates: A Full and Complete Digest of the Statute Laws Pertaining to the Offices of Magistrate and of Constable in the State of South Carolina; And Also a Digest of the Common Law of Crime My father, who early in his legal career was a Trial Justice of the State of south Carolina, being convinced of the necessity for a Manual of the laws relating to Trial Justices, describing their multifarious duties, published the Law of Trial Justices, a book which has been used by the Trial Justices - or Magistrates, as they are now called - for more than thirty years. Actuated by a desire to preserve my father's work, and to perform a service to'the State of South Carolina, I have revised this work in accordance with the new Code of 1912, inserting all new statutes that have been passed, as well as references to recent decisions of the Courts. The Legislature at its 1912 session passed a resolution to purchase copies of this book to be supplied to the Magis trates. I hope it will not be regarded as doing more than duty requires to recommend to the Magistrates a careful reading of this book. Magistrates everywhere are credited with a disposition to leave the strong meat of the word within the calf-bound covers, placed over their heads on the shelf, trusting to some lucky flash of insight to move them to the true deci sion. They are accused of yielding their hearts to the most impassioned argument in the case, and of sometimes lending conniving ear to the first comer into the Court. The State has a right to expect its Magistrates to be competent men to act for it. If you look upon law as a thing to be used when it suits you, or evaded when it does not suit you, the Nation is losing the main bulwark of social order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.