The Compleat justice. Being an exact and compendious collection out of such as have treated of the office of justices of the peace, but principally out of Mr. Lambert, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Dalton. / Now amplified and purged from sundry errors which were in former impressions thereof. ; Whereunto are added the resolutions of the judges of assises in the year 1633. ; Together with a compendious charge to be given at the quarter-sessions, not in print till this year 1661.

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Title: The Compleat justice. Being an exact and compendious collection out of such as have treated of the office of justices of the peace, but principally out of Mr. Lambert, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Dalton. / Now amplified and purged from sundry errors which were in former impressions thereof. ; Whereunto are added the resolutions of the judges of assises in the year 1633. ; Together with a compendious charge to be given at the quarter-sessions, not in print till this year 1661.
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Name.

THE names and surnames of the party indicted must be certainly expressed; and if the indictment be of an accessary in felony, the name of the principal must be set down also, Lam. 488. Vide Additions.

Nets, vide Hunting, Partridges and Phesants.

News.

Contriver, speaker, or teller of false or counterfeit news, whereof discord, &c. may arise betwixt the King and his Nobles, or any other false news, lies, or other false things of Prelates, Dukes Earls, & Barons, &c. whereof discord and slander may arise within the realm, shall be imprisoned till he finde out the author; and if he cannot find him, shall

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be punished by the advice of the Councel, ••st. 1. 3 Ed. 1. c. 33. 2 R. 2. c. 5. 12 R. 2. c. ••. 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 3. Dal. 326.

Next Justice.

Where the Statute of 13 H. 4. c. 7. willeth ••e Just. of Peace most nigh in every Coun∣••••, where such riot or rout shall be, to do ex∣••••ution of the Statute under pain of 100 li. •• any other Justice, that be not next unto ••e place shall execute the Statute, it will ex∣••use the next, because all have power alike, ••y the first part of the Stat. Lam. 326, 327. Dal. 111. P. R. 30.

Night-walkers, vide Watches,

Noble Personages.

A Noblemans promise to keep the Peace hath been held sufficient, Dal 165. Lam. 81, 82.

A Justice of Peace may not grant warrant of the Peace against a Lord of the Parlia∣ment, Dal. 165.

Nor against a Dutchess, Countess, or Ba∣roness; for they are Peers of the Realm, and shall be tried by their Peers, and have the same priviledges that Dukes, Earls, and Ba∣rons have, Dal. 166.

Dutchess, Countess, or any Noble by birth, marrieth with a Gentleman, she loseth not her name of dignity: but if she be made noble onely by marriage, and her husband dying, marry a Gentleman, she loseth herdignity,

C••o. 110. a. Dal. 166. Vide Clergy, that a No∣bleman may have his Clergy for any felony, except wilfull murder and poisoning.

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None are noble under the degree of a Baron, Lam. 539.

Non sanae memoriae.

There be three sorts of persons Non sanae memoriae, or non compotes mentis, Dal. 248.

1. A natural fool, who is so from his bir••h.

2. He that was once of sound memory, and after by sickness, hurt, or other accident or visitation of God loseth it.

3. A lunatick, qui gaudet lucidis intervallis, and sometimes is of good understanding and sometimes is not compos mentis.

Nusance.

Every man may in a peaceable manner as∣semble a meet company to do any lawful thing, or to remove or cast down any com∣mon Nusance, Dal. 224. Cro. 66. a nu. 64.

One is indicted of Nusance, and acknow∣ledgeth it, infinite distress shall go to the Sheriff to remove it, and he shall not be re∣ceived to his fine, till the Sheriff return that it is removed, Cro. 186. a.