The magistrates’ manual for the colony of Victoria,

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

containing practical directions to the Justices of the Peace, in the performance of their duties, as required by the adoption of Jervis s Acts, and the New South Wales Act of Council, 14th Vic., No. 43; by His Honour William a Beckett, Chief Justice of Her Majesty s Supreme Court of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne Morning Herald Office, 1852. Octavo, gilt-lettered papered boards (edges rubbed), patterned endpapers (a little foxed), pp. viii; 118, internally clean, a very good copy. The first judicial manual written for the newly separated Colony of Victoria, written by the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. à Beckett also happens to be the great-grandfather of Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd and relation of the extensive Boyd family.

• Binding: Hardcover

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