English liberties, or, The free-born subject’s inheritance ..

English liberties, or, The free-born subject’s inheritance: containing, I., Magna Carta, the petition of right, the habeas corpus act, & c with comments upon each of them … of justices of the peace, their oath, office, and power … the coroner and constable’s duty … and lastly, the churchwarden, overseer, and scavenger’s duty ..

Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland > England and Wales > Restoration, 1660-1689

Edition Details

Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Henry Care
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: London : Printed and sold by Benj. Harris, at the Golden Boar’s Head in Grace Church-Street, 1700
Publication Type (Medium): Handbooks and manuals, Handbooks, Reference books, Insertions (Provenance), Booksellers’ advertisements, Early works to 1800, Handbooks, manuals, etc. Early works to 1800
Type: Book
Other titles: Free-born subject’s inheritance
Magna Carta.
Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/english-liberties-or-the-free-born-subject-s-inheritance/ (Stable identifier)

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[12], 257, [7] p. ; 16 cm (12mo)

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Bibliographic information

Responsable Person: first compiled by Henry Care ; and now inlarged with new and useful additions, by a wellwisher to his country ; dedicated to the Honourable House of Commons.
Publication Date: 1700
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 1 editions
First edition Date: 1700
Last edition Date: 1700
General Notes: Originally published in 1680?
Epistle dedicatory signed B. Harris.
“Books printed and sold by B. Harris, at the Golden Boars Head in Grace Church-Street”–Pages 257-[264].
Signatures: A⁶ B-M¹² (M12 verso blank).
Languages: British English
Library of Congress Code: KD3959
OCLC: 81802150

Main Contents

(from title page) Containing, I. Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, &c. With comments upon each of them. The proceedings in appeals of murder; the work and power of parliaments, the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. The advantage Englishmen enjoy by trials by juries. That they are judges of law as well as fact; and are not fineable, nor to be punish’d, for going contrary to the judges directions
II. Of Justices of the Peace; their oath, office, and power, in many respects; with several law cases alphabetically digested for ease and brevity, and warrants proper thereto, placed exact after each particular case, concluding with a short discourse of the succession of the crown, sitting of parliaments, and trails of treason, as also directions for drovers, badgers, butchers, toll-keepers, and clerks of the market, &c.
III. The coroner and constable’s duty, relating to dead bodies, murder, man-slaughter, and felo-de-se; arrests, escapes, and conservation of the peace. And lastly, the church-warden, overseer, and scavenger’s duty at large, in the most necessary particulars.

English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance ..