THE MAGISTRATE'S РОСКЕТ - ВООК; OR, AN EPITOME OF THE DUTIES AND PRACTICE OF A Justice of the Peace, OUT OF SESSIONS. ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. TO WHICH IS ADDED A COPIOUS AND GENERAL INDEX. BY WM. ROBINSON, ESQ. LL.D. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. "A good magistrate takes a just medium, he orders neither always LONDON: PRINTED FOR CHARLES HUNTER, LAW BOOKSELLER, 26, BELL-YARD, LINCOLN'S-INN. 1825. ADVERTISEMENT. "Justa pari premitur veluti cùm pondere libra, THE Magistrate's Pocket Book was originally compiled by the author for his own use; but having shown the manuscript to some of his friends, he was induced by them to believe, that the publication of such a work would be a ready auxiliary, not only to the magistracy generally, but also to other persons more immediately connected with the statute law. From these considerations the author has ventured to send the Pocket Book out to the public; and if it should prove acceptable, he shall consider himself amply compensated by their approbation, for the time and trouble he has bestowed in compiling it. To have added forms of summonses, warrants, convictions, orders, adjudications, &c. would * Tibullus, lib. 4. Panegr. ad Massalam, ver. 41, 42. |