Justice of the peace.

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Notes about cases heard as Justice of the Peace, 1784-1795

This small paper-bound notebook contains notes Winthrop made concerning the cases he heard between 1784 and 1795 as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County. These notes provide insight into the nature of crimes being committed in Cambridge in the post-Revolutionary period, as well as the names and occupations of those accused and their victims. The cases involved the following individuals, among others: Samuel Bridge, Benjamin Estabrook, Joseph Jeffords, Cato Bordman, John Kidder, Spenser Goddin, Jacob Cromwell, Benjamin Stratton, Mary Flood, Bender Temple, John Willett, Joseph Hartwell, Nathaniel Stratton, Amos Washburn, Francis Moore, Thomas Malone, Thomas Cook, and Amboy Brown. The cases involved a range of offenses, and occasionally Winthrop decided that a case exceeded his jurisdiction and forwarded it to the General Court or the Supreme Judicial Court.

The office of justice of the peace in England, in its origin and development.

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The new Virginia justice, comprising the office and authority of a justice of the peace, in the commonwealth of Virginia.

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The justice of the peace for Ireland : containing the authorities and duties of that officer, as also of the various conservators of the peace ... with a digest of the common and statute law ... connected with the pleas of the Crown /

Includes indexes.

Testimony, 1733

Young's testimony regarding an altercation he witnessed between Israel Chittenden, Benjamin House, John Hyland, and John Lindsey in or near the town of Scituate in September 1732. Heard before justice of the peace John Cushing in September 1732, and before John Winslow in Plymouth County Court of Assize, April 28, 1733. Signed by both.

Notes on cases in Barnstable County, 1791

Pamphlet containing notes on various cases, including a case "for not delivering goods put on board the defendant's vessel" and another "for concealing a pregnancy."

Docket book, 1774-1800

Contains list of names of parties in legal disputes arranged chronologically. Little information is given about the nature of disputes.

A generall mapp of the Coast of Barbarie, where in are the Kingdoms, and Estates of Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli: also the Kingdoms, Estates and Deserts of Barca, Egipt, Libya, Biledulgerid, Segelmesse and Darha: with the circumjacent counteries

by Mounsieur Sanson ; rendred into English and illustrated by Richard Blome ; Francis Lamb Sculpit.

Notes on cases in Plymouth, Barnstable and Duke Counties, 1785

Includes notes on cases of property law, and assault and battery.

Motion for change of venue in the case of the Inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay Colony v. Charles Paxton, October 1761

A motion that the case not be tried in Suffolk County, on the grounds that the judges and jurors were residents of the colony. Pratt was attorney to Paxton, an attorney and commissioner of customs, who had incurred a debt to the Colony.

[ Order to the sheriff of Bucks County], 1731

An order to the sheriff of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for twelve men to serve on a jury in the trial of John Borrowes, for an unspecified crime. Signed: Jeremiah Langhorne (justice of the peace); dated 14 June 1731. With seal. With this document (originally attached) is the list of jurors chosen to serve at the trial.

A letter to the lord lieutenant of the county of Surrey, on the misconduct of licensing magistrates, and the consequent degradation of the magistracy.

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Justice in Ireland : exemplified in a correspondence between the Irish government and David John Wilson, which caused him to resign the Commission of the Peace : addressed to the magistrates of the County Clare.

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A guide to the magistracy and lieutenancy of Berks : the acreage and population of the county, the petty sessional divisions, the times and places of holding, and the order of proceeding at the quarter sessions. To which is added an account of the lords-lieutenant, the militia, and yeomanry of the county and also lists of the high sheriffs and of the members returned to Parliament ...

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