Author: Richard Burn

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 9781332147830

Excerpt from The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Vol. 3 of 4: Continued to the Present Time Justices of the peace are judges of record, appointed by the king, to be justices within certain limits, for the conservation of the peace, and for the execution of divers things comprehended within their commission, and within divers statutes committed to their charge. Dalt. c. 2. And a record or memorial made by a justice of the peace, of things done before him judicially in the execution of his office, shall be of such credit, that it shall not be gainsaid. One man may affirm a thing, and another man may deny it; but if a record once say the word, no man shall be received to aver or speak against it; for if men should be admitted to deny the fame, there would never be any end of controversies. And therefore to avoid all contention, while one faith one thing and another faith another thing, the law reposeth itself wholly and solely in the report of the judge. And hereof it cometh, that he cannot make a substitute or deputy in his office, seeing that he may not put over the confidence that is put in him. Great cause therefore have the justices to take heed that they abuse not this credit; either to the oppression of the subject by making an untrue record, or the defrauding of the king by suppressing the record that is true and lawful. Lamb. 63 - 66. Hereof also it cometh, that if a justice of the peace certify to the kings bench, that any person hath broken the peace in his presence, upon this certificate such person shall be there fined, without allowing him any traverse thereto. Dalt. c. 70. 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.