| Albert Beebe White - 1908 - 452 страници
...same year they were first called justices of the peace. An act of that year granted them the power to " hear and determine at the king's suit all manner...county according to the laws and customs aforesaid"; and there was added significantly: "And the king will, that all general inquiries before this time... | |
| Albert Beebe White - 1908 - 458 страници
...same year they were first called justices of the peace. An act of that year granted them the power to " hear and determine at the king's suit all manner...county according to the laws and customs aforesaid"; and there was added significantly: "And the king will, that all general inquiries before this time... | |
| Frederic William Maitland - 1911 - 584 страници
...the law, and they are to have power to arrest malefactors, to receive indictments against them, and to hear and determine at the king's suit all manner of felonies and trespasses done in their county according to the law and customs of the realm. The conservators of the peace are now authorised... | |
| Edward Jenks - 1912 - 438 страници
...belong to them as magistrates or ; keepers of the peace. But, in their judicial_capacity, they may ' hear and determine at the King's suit all manner of...felonies and trespasses done in the same county.' A slightly earlier statute 2 had already established the General or Quarter Sessions of the Justices... | |
| James Root Hulbert - 1912 - 92 страници
...learned in the law, were given power to arrest malefactors, to receive indictments against them, and to hear and determine at the King's suit all manner of felonies and trespasses done in the county. In 1362 it was directed by statute that the justices should hold sessions four times a year,... | |
| James Root Hulbert - 1912 - 120 страници
...learned in the law, were given power to arrest malefactors, to receive indictments against them, and to hear and determine at the King's suit all manner of felonies and trespasses done in the county. In 1362 it was directed by statute that the justices should hold sessions four times a year,... | |
| George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens - 1916 - 588 страници
...such offenders; and also to hear and determine at the king's suit all manner of felonies and trepasses done in the same county according to the laws and customs aforesaid; and that writs of oyer and determiner be granted according to the statutes thereof made, and that the... | |
| William Renwick Riddell - 1926 - 508 страници
...selonc les leys & custumes avantdites" — ri. e., "to hear and determine at the suit of the King, all manner of Felonies and Trespasses done in the...County according to the Laws and Customs aforesaid." Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book 4, p. 268 (of the original edition, Oxford,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 338 страници
...authorized to hold sessions four times in the year and to hear and determine — oyer et termmer — at the king's suit, all manner of felonies and trespasses done in the same county. That this was the status and authority of justices of the peace when Chaucer was appointed is clear... | |
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