Justices of the Peace
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 (English)
and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several counties, by Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Commissioners for Musters, Justices of Peace and others, by command or direction from your Majesty or your Privy Council, against the laws and free customs of this realm:
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Local magistrates commanded, in their several divisions, to enforce order at and permit the lawful recreations of the Feasts of Dedication.
Now our express will and pleasure is, that these Feasts, with others, shall be observed, and that our Justices of the Peace, in their several divisions, shall look to it, both that all disorders there may be prevented or punished, and that all neighbourhood and freedom, with manlike and lawful exercises be used:
therefore in respect of the great and urgent necessity of providing a present supply of men for the preventing of these great and imminent dangers, and for the speedy suppressing of the said heinous and dangerous rebellions, be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that the Justices of the Peace of every county and riding within this realm, or any three or more of them, as also the M …
II. Provided always that this Act shall not extend to the pressing of any clergyman, or any scholars or students or privileged persons of either of the Universities, Inns of Court or Chancery, or any of the trained bands of this realm, or to the pressing of any other person who was rated towards the payment of the last subsidies, or that shall be rated or taxed towards the payment of any subsidies …
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Local magistrates given summary jurisdiction to convict under the Combination Act, and, in Berkshire, responsible for administering wage relief under the Speenhamland system.
persons guilty of this or any other offence under the Act are made liable to conviction on summary procedure before justices of the peace.
The so-called “Speenhamland Act of Parliament,” by which the Justices of Berkshire granted to working-men relief in proportion to the number of their families, or, to use the political slang of to-day, tried to provide for them a “living wage,” is the fruit of the same policy which gave birth to the Combination Act, 1800.
The counties, with the affairs whereof their inhabitants had for the most part little to do, were in reality governed by the justices of the peace.
The Law of Torts
Local magistrates given statutory protection by a short limitation period for acts done in execution of their office.
Justices of the peace and constables are protected by general enactments that actions against them for any thing done in the execution of their office must be brought within six months of the act complained of;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Local magistrates whose office, originating shortly after 1194, gradually took over the sheriff's judicial duties, especially those exercised in his tourn.
To the next year is usually traced the origin of the justices of the peace, who gradually took over the duties of the sheriff, until they practically superseded him as the ruling power in the county.
Several statutes of later reigns confirmed, even while regulating, the authority of the sheriff to take indictments at his tourns, until this jurisdiction was transferred, by an act of the fifteenth century, to the justices of peace assembled in Quarter Sessions.