16. A.D. P. Should Know, at least as much of the law as
Potter
obtained the study
Landbooks
Burns Justie
PREFACE. If the peace
of the ordnay
THE purpose of the author in writing the follow-
ing pages, descriptive of the duties, rights, and
liabilities of justices of the peace, has been to
supply a want much felt by this numerous and
useful body of public functionaries.
Whilst books upon the law to be administered
by magistrates are to be found in abundance,
there is no work which purports carefully to
describe and point out the practical method by
which that law is to be dispensed; hence it has
been conceived that a book which should devote
itself to a familiar explanation of the manner and
mode of performing the duties of the office, and
should enter into the details of the practice of
administering the law, would be deemed an ac-
ceptable acquisition to the legal library of the
justice of the peace.
To accomplish this object no pains have been spared. Every ordinary duty of the justice has been described with a precision and an absence