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DEFINITIONS &c.
Magistrate The word Magistrate shall include as well Trustees in
respect of their cognizance the <add>Judicial power of Indication power given</add> to them, & to by <add>& to they are </add> as Justices deputy of the
Peace & other Judges of a higher rank use of this v. in §38 or it might be Court had not this letter obtained a more limited signification in common understanding which word be apt to occupy the mind in exclusion to that which it is meant to be inculcated. in
Constable By Constable shall include the Boroholders Fitting men
& Headboroughs, and those those by what other name so ever
entitled whose office corresponds to that of Constable Constable v. Budgell 103.
Qu. High Constable.
Parish Officer The word Parish-Officer shall include Overseers of the
Poor & Churchwardens & Chapel-wardens: also the such
as do the duty stand in the stead of the above persons in any Extraparochial place. [N.B. Qu. who are they.]
N.B Qu whether these personal Definitions should not be
engrafted into the inspection Sections relating to the persons - reference
being made in the Section of Definitions - thus -
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Parish. §27
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Turnpike-Man or Tollgatherer Qu.
County Informer By Informer is meant as well he who seizes a penalty thing
forfeited in the 1st instance, + + "at short hand" is a very elegant & expressive phrase, which our Law wants, but which is used for the purpose in the Scotch Law. - v Ld Keymes's Law Tracts. p.... Edit.... as he who in the Summary or
regular mode institutes prosecution before the a Magistrate.
Oath §58 G. 42, 45 Past. The Oaths herein enjoined the Magistrate any one before whom it is <add>they are to be taken</add> may administer
Application §52. v §31. & Obs. XIX no 137 The Penalties pecuniary forfeitures given, when by this Act shall be applied enure, when
recover'd by in aProceeding Summary way shall enure, where a Turnpike officer is Informer or the conviction is upon view of a Magistrate the whole to the benefit of the Road: in other cases half to the
use of the Informer, & half to the benefit of the Road:
when in the regular way, the whole to the Informer.
except that where a Turnpike Officer is Informer,
[or the conviction is upon the view of a Magistrate]
Toties quoties wanting in §30, An the offender He who commitsd a 2d offence shall be obnoxious to a 2d Punishment
after but not before conviction for a first: & so on every repetition
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