The Conductor Generalis: Or the Office, Duty and Authority of Justices

1794. Revised and Adapted to the United States of America" Parker, James [1714-1770]. The Conductor Generalis: Or, the Office, Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace, High-Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Gaolers, Jury-Men, and Overseers of the Poor. As Also the Office of Clerks of Assize, And of the Peace, &c. Compiled Chiefly from Burn's Justice, And the Several Other Books on Those Subjects, By James Parker, Late One of the Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County, In New-Jersey; And Now Revised and Adapted to the United States of America. By a Gentleman of the Law. The Whole Alphabetically Digested Under the Several Titles; With a Table Directing to the Ready Finding Out the Proper Matter Under Those Titles. Albany: Printed by Charles R. And George Webster, 1794. xv, [1], 17-467, [1] pp. Printer advertisments to versos of p. xv and 467 have printer advertisements. [Bound with] The Ten Pound Act: That is to Say, An Act for the More Speedy Recovery of Debts to the Value of Ten Pounds. Enacted into a Law, By the People of the State of New-York, Represented in Senate and Assembly, The Seventeenth Day of April, In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven, And of American Independency the Eleventh. To Which is Added, An Appendix: Containing the XVth Section of the Act for the Relief of Debtors. An Act Repealing Two Sections of Said Act. And, An Act to Amend the Ten Pound Act. Also, Correct and Authentic Copies of a Justice's Summons, Warrant, Subpoena, Venire, Peace-Warrant, Execution Against Goods, And Goods and Body. Albany: [Printed] by Charles R. And George Webster, [1795]. 23, [1] pp. Bookseller advertisements to versos of title page and p.23. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary sheep, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine. A few nicks to boards, which are slightly bowed, light rubbing to extremities, small nick to lettering piece, boards beginning to separate but secure, corners lightly bumped, minor worming to rear pastedown and free endpaper, front free endpaper partially detached and somewhat edgeworn, "19/" to its upper outside corner. Light browning to interior, gradually diminishing dampstaining to lower outside of corner of text block to p.233, light foxing to a few leaves. $250. * A popular American legal manual issued by different printers and publishers l.