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MAGISTRATE.
MAgistrate, he is custos utriusque tabulae the keeper or preserver of both Tables of the Law.
If any Magistrate or Minister of Iustice in ex∣ecution of their Office, or in keeping of the peace, according to the duty of their office, be slain, this is murder, for their contempt and disobedience to the King and the Law; for it is contra potestatem Regis & Legis. If the Sheriff, a Iustice of Peace, the chief Constable, Watchmen, or any which come in their aid, be killed in doing of their Office, this is murder. For when any of the Kings* 1.1 Officers by process of Law (be it erroneous or not) arresteth another in the Kings Name, or re∣quire the disturbers of peace to keep peace in the Kings Name, and they disobey tho Kings Com∣mand and kill him, reason requireth that this kil∣ling should be an offence of the highest degree in this nature, and that is murder of malice pre∣pensed.
MAIME.
Maime, (membri mutilatio or obtruncatio) is a* 1.2 corporall hurt, whereby one looseth a member, by reason whereof, he is less able to fight, as by put∣ting out his eye, beating out his foreteeth.
This offence of maim, is under all felonies de∣serving death, and above all other inferiour offen∣ces,* 1.3 so as it may be truly said of it, that it is inter