Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace.

• imprint_number: 1774.016
• title: The office and authority of a justice of peace explained and digested, under proper titles. To which are added, full and correct precedents of all kinds of process necessary to be used by magistrates; in which also the duty of sheriffs, and other publick officers, is properly discussed. By Richard Starke, Esquire
• sequence_number: 16
• year: 1774
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Purdie & Dixon
• author: Starke, Richard (d. 1772).
• notes: Starke was a clerk to several committees of the House of Burgesses in the 1760s; he was authorized to produce this replacement for George Webb's aging Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace (1736.006) in the November 1769 session; he died before it was completed; "some benevolent gentlemen of the law" finished the work for the benefit of Starke's family.
  
  
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