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Excerpt from The Justice of the Peace and His Functions: On and Off the Bench In the following chapters the writer has attempted a survey of the entire field of public duty, judicial and administrative, that is assigned to persons holding the office of Justice of the Peace. As a layman he is conscious of a certain presumption in venturing on territory which is generally regarded as the preserve of gentlemen learned in the law. His excuse must be, that while there are many admirable treatises of a solid and formal type - enriched with a profusion of legal lore and fully equipped with indexes, notes of cases and references to statutes - there is no handy manual offering practical hints for the guidance of a magistrate and describing his daily work in a plain, untechnical way. Such a vade mecum this little book is designed to be. The author submits it to the judgment and criticism of his brethren in the hope that it may be helpful to those who, without previous legal training, find themselves called on to discharge the multifarious duties of a Justice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.