The Office of Magistrate (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Office of Magistrate The office of magistrate entails duties the importance of which is to be measured by the amount of regard a community pays to the liberty of the individual. It has not been created by any sudden exigency, for, though it derives its jurisdiction entirely on special authority given and regulated by statute, its powers, defined as far back as the reign of Edward III, have been gradually developed and extended as the needs of society have demanded. Even at a time previous to that of Edward III we find persons holding offices for the maintenance of the public peace. These conservators of the peace, as they were called, claimed their power, either (a) by virtue of their office (from the Lord Chancellor to the constable), by prescription, (y) by the tenure of their lands, or (8) by choice of freeholders. The manner in which they might exercise their authority was by committing to custody those whom they] actually saw breaking the law, or they might admit them to bail, or oblige them to give sureties for keeping the peace. 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.