The Compleat Sheriff: Wherein is Set Forth, His Office and Authority

1727. A Long-Lived Handbook for English Sheriffs [Sheriffs]. [Great Britain]. The Compleat Sheriff: Wherein is Set Forth, His Office and Authority; With Directions, How and in What Manner to Execute the Same, According to the Common and Statute Laws of This Kingdom, Which are Now in Force and Use: And the Judgments and Resolutions of the Judges in Divers Late Cases in the Several Courts of Westminster, Relating Thereunto. Likewise of Under-Sheriffs and Their Deputies; And Where the High-Sheriff Shall be Answerable for Their Defaults, And Where Not, &c. Together with the Learning of Bail-Bonds; With an Explication of Stat. 23 H.6. Cap. 10. And Pleadings Thereon. Returns of Writs, Remedies Against Non Return and Faux Return, Habeas Corpus, Venire's, Challenges and Enquiry of Damages. Prisoners and Prisons. Execution by Fieri Fac', Elegit, &c. Escapes, Actions and Pleadings Therein. Fresh Pursuit, And Other Pleas. Attachment, Amerciament: Actions, Declarations and Pleadings on the Sheriffs Non-Feasance or Male-Feasance. Customs of London, As to Prisons, Courts, Process, Sheriffs Fees, Extortion, Sheriffs Accompts, &c. To Which is Added, The Office and Duty of Coroners, And Many Modern Adjudged Cases relating to the Office of a Sheriff to this Time, &c. With Large Additions. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for John Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters, 1727. [xxiii], 505, [22] pp. Title page preceded by publisher advertisement. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary calf, rebacked retaining existing spine with raised bands and recent period-style lettering piece, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing, shallow scuffing to boards, front hinge cracked, front free endpaper detached, rear hinge starting. Light toning to interior, light browning to a few leaves, offsetting and faint dampspotting to endleaves. $350. * Third edition. One of the most thorough books of its kind, the aptly-titled Compleat Sheriff is notably descriptive. It also includes citations of legal cases, bibliographical references, chapters on juries and habeas corpus and a detailed discussion of the law of escapes. A useful and long-lived work, it had six editions, the last in 1778. All are scarce. English Short-Title Catalogue N4926.