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Recognisance of the peace delivered by the
justices at their sessions.....
Quarter-sessions held by the justices of peace. 250
The authority of justices of the peace out of
their sessions.....
Judges of assize came in place of the ancient
judges in eyre, about the time of R. H.... 251
England divided into six circuits, and two
learned men in the laws assigned by the
king's commission to ride twice a year
through those shires allotted to that circuit,
for the trial of private titles to lands and
goods, and all treasons and felonies, which
the county courts meddle not in......... 251
The authority of the judges in eyre translated
by Parliament to justices of assize...... 251
The authority of the justice of assizes much
.....
251
lessened by the Court of Common Pleas,
erected in Henry III's. time............. 251
The justices of assize have at this day five
commissions by which they sit, viz., 1.
Oyer and Terminer. 2. Jail Delivery. 3. To take assizes. 4. To take Nisi Prius. 5. Of the peace......
Book allowed to clergy for the scarcity of
them to be disposed in religious houses.. 252
The course the judges hold in their circuits in
the execution of their commission concern-
ing the taking of Nisi Prius............ 253
The justices of the peace and the sheriff are to
attend the judges in their county........ 253
Of property of lands to be gained by entry.. 253
Land left by the sea belongeth to the king..... 253
Property of lands by descent...
Three rules of descent...
254
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249
Every heir having land is bound by the binding
Conservators of the peace, and what their office
was......
Conservators of the peace by virtue of their
office
Justices of peace ordained in lieu of conserva-
tors; of placing and displacing of justices
of peace by use delegated from the king to
the chancellor......
The power of the justice of peace to fine the
offenders to the crown, and not to recom-
pense the party grieved......
.... 250
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Of the variety of the bodies which yield
sound; and the instruments; and of
the species of sounds which occur.... 540
Of the multiplication, majoration, diminu-
tion, and fraction of sound........... 540
Of the repercussion of sounds and echo..... 541
Of the consents and dissents of audibles and
visibles, and of other so called spiritual
species......
Of the quickness of the generation, and ex-
tinction of sound, and the time in which
they are effected........
Of the affinity, or non-affinity, which sound
hath with the motion, local and per-
ceptible, of the air in which it is car-
ried.......
541
543
538
Of the carriage of sounds, and their direction
or spreading; and of the area which
sound fills, together and severally..... 539 INDEX............
545