New England Sheriff, Or Digest of the Duties of Civil Officers: Being a Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts, with Reference to Those of the Neighboring States, Upon Those Subjects; With Copious Forms (Classic Reprint)

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Gentlemen of the profession, in different parts of the commonwealth, have long felt the want of a work to supply this deficiency. The peculiar character of our attachment and jail laws - of the office of sheriff, and the novel relation in which he stands to his deputies, and those to each other - the ftc quency of legislative interposition, and of judicial interpretation, have rendered Eng lish books 11 on this subject, comparative ly of little value. The learned work of Mr. Backus, shews the impossibility of em bodying the disjointed codes of this branch of American law, into a single treatise of any practical utility. The histories of the twen ty-four States, composing the confederacy, shew the impossibility of ever establishing an uniformity upon this subject.

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