The office and authority of a justice of the peace. : And also, the duty of sheriffs, coroners, constables, churchwardens, overseers of roads and other officers. : Together with precedents of warrants, judgments, executions and other legal process, issuable by magistrates within their several juristictions, in cases civil and criminal, with the method of judicial proceedings before justices of the peace out of sessions. also some directions for their conduct within their county courts. : To which is added, an appendix containing many useful precedents, and directions for the execution of them. : Collected from the common and statute laws of England, and the acts of assembly of this province, and adapted to our constitution and practice. / by J. Davis. Esq ; one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Craven.