Parker, James, compiler:

$750 · Offered by William Reese Company

CONDUCTOR GENERALIS: OR THE OFFICE, DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, HIGH-SHERIFFS, UNDER-SHERIFFS, CORONERS, CONSTABLES, GOALERS, JURY-MEN, AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. AS ALSO, THE OFFICE ... A later 18th-century edition of this popular handbook for justices of the peace and other principle officers responsible for ensuring that laws are properly enforced. Cohen records twelve editions, of varying lengths and contents, published between 1711 and 1819. Compiled by James Parker, former Justice of the Peace in Middlesex County, New Jersey, the work was based primarily on English sources, including Richard Burn's JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, first published in England in the mid-18th century. Organized alphabetically, the work covers the broadest range of topics including arraignments and arrests, bail, gaming, highways and homicide, indictment, larceny, oaths, pardons, search warrants, vagrants, and warrants. A second part of the text is devoted to the duties of sheriffs, under-sheriffs, juries, and jailers. A fine source for the practice of everyday law in the early Federal period.

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