The Justice of the Peace, being a General Directory and Forms Proper for the Due Execution of the Office According to the Common and Statute Laws Now in Force and Use in the State of Connecticut and the Complete Constable:
Harford, Conn. 1816 and 1812: for the Author. First Edition. Octavo. Item #023688
Two works in one with two title pages. Book I: 264 and book 2: 134 plus (8) pp, index. The first work, The Justice of the Peace consists of forms of proceedings, in civil and criminal cases. The Complete Constable contains the office, duties, and authority, with the manner and forms of executing the same, according to the Common and Statute Laws now in force and in use in the State of Conecticut.From the library of Timothy Hall with his Masonic bookplate. Hall was a physician from Hartford, Conn. He served as a surgeon in the army during the Revolution and witnessed the execution of Major Andre. After the war he was a surgeon of the nineteenth regiment of the militia. Among his many important achievements, in 1791, he was given persmission by the city of Hartford to set up and distribute inoculations for small-pox. Bound in contemporary calf, beautifully rebacked to style, rules in blind, red leather spine label git. A very good copy from the Weston Historical Society with their gift stamp on the second black.
Price: $250.00