Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

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Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.
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Kilburne, Richard, 1605-1678.
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London :: printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, Esquires, for Richard Tonson within Grayes-Inn-Gate next Grayes-Inn-Lane,
1681.
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Forms (Law) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Justices of the peace -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47352.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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THE Publisher's Preface TO THE READER.

THE good Reception this Trea∣tise hath met with in the World, hath put me upon the Revi∣sing of several of the Author's Papers that came to my hands since his Death, which, for the publick good, I have with all Faithfulness and Candour (strictly observing his own Method) reduced into order. But withall, I cannot but let the Reader know, that tho' the Title Courts be added to this Collection, which at first sight may seem something Foreign to the rest of the Matter, yet it being col∣lected by the same Author (who was an Attorney as well as a Justice of the Peace,) and his Design alwaies

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being to improve the Method of ma∣king up Court-Rolls in a more suc∣cinct and beneficial manner than o∣thers understood, I thought it my Duty to oblige all Persons concerned in that Practice, by incerting that Title in the second Impression of this Book. The other Additions the Reader will find extreamly suitable to the first Intention of the Author, being Precedents which have recei∣ved their Forms from late Acts of Parliament, and otherwise since the Author's Death to the time of this second Publication. Only I must further add that no small pains hath been taken in this second Edition, to fit the several Authorities quoted in the Margin to the last Impressions of the Statutes at large, and Dalton's Iustice, which I hope will find a fa∣vourable Acceptance and Esteem from the Purchaser, which is the utmost desire of

G. F.

Grayes-Inn, May 12. 1681.

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