Rex v. Justices of Kent, 9 B. & C. 283. By a local act the management of the parish poor was vested in the churchwardens, overseers, governors, and directors of the poor; and an appeal to them was given to any person thinking himself aggrieved by any thing to be done by virtue of the act; and if the appellant should be dissatisfied with their determination, then an appeal was to be given to the quarter sessions. A parishioner having applied for relief against a rate to the churchwardens, overseers, governors, and directors, they at a meeting resolved to take no further notice of his application: Held, that as they had not come to any determination on the subject-matter of his complaint, the parishioner could not appeal to the quarter sessions, but ought to have first applied for a mandamus to compel the churchwardens, &c. to hear the appeal. Constable. [Vide ante, p. 688.] Davies v. Russell and Others, 5 Bing. 354. Defendant, a constable, being told by A. that the plaintiff had robbed her, and the information being countenanced by a supposed intercepted letter which was shown to him, apprehended the plaintiff, a respectable inhabitant of Cheltenham, at her lodgings, and took her from her bed at night to prison. The charge proving unfounded, plaintiff sued him for the false imprisonment, and the judge having directed the jury to consider whether the foregoing circumstancs afforded the defendant reasonable ground to suppose the plaintiff had committed a felony, and whether in his situation they would have acted as he had done: Held, that this direction was substantially correct: Held also, that under the circumstances, the degree of coercion exercised by the defendant was not excessive. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Lately published. A SUPPLEMENT to the Twenty-third Edition of Dr. BURN'S JUSTICE OF THE PEACE and PARISH OFFICER; including the Statutes from the 1 Geo. 4. 1820, to the 3 Geo. 4. 1822, together with several new Precedents. By Sir GEORGE CHETWYND, Bart. M.P. Price 16s. in Boards. THE ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. BY RICHARD BURN, LL.D. late Chancellor of the Diocese of Carlisle. The Eighth Edition, corrected, with considerable additions. By ROBERT PHILIP TYRWHITT, Esq. of the Middle Temple. In 4 vols. 8vo. Price 31. 3s. in Boards. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, in Four Books. By Sir WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Knt. one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; with the last corrections of the Author, and Notes. By JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esq. M.A. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Handsomely printed in 4 Vols. 8vo., with a Portrait engraved on steel by Mr. Edward Finden. Price 21. 10s. in Boards. AN ANALYSIS OF BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, in a Series of Questions, in which the student is to frame his own answers by reading that work. By BARRON FIELD, Esq. late Chief Justice of the Colony of New South Wales. The Third Edition. Price 8s. in Boards. THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE LAW, considered in their various relations to society, in a series of Letters. By JOHN RAITH BY, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. Second Edition, 8vo. Price 12s. in Boards. THE FIVE ACTS, called Mr. PEEL'S ACTS, (7 & 8 G. 4. c. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.) reduced to distinct heads, and adapted to the arrangement of Burn's Justice; pointing out the alterations made by those Acts, and present state of the Law. By ISAAC 'ESPINASSE, Esq. one of the Benchers of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, and an acting Magistrate for Kent. 8vo. Price 5s. in Boards. |