PLUNKETT'S linume 1871.

AUSTRALIAN MAGISTRATE:
from. ff. Y. Faris

GUIDE TO THE DUTIES

OF A

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,

WITH

NUMEROUS FORMS.

New Edition.

BY EDWIN C. SUTTOR, ESQ.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF INSOLVENT ESTATES,
AND A MAGISTRATE OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

ALSO,

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

THE RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO CROWN LANDS AND ASSESSMENT
UPON STOCK, THE NEW JURY ACT, A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE LAW
OF LANDLORD AND TENANT, WITH THE TENEMENTS ACT, AND
ACT FOR FACILITATING THE GRANTING OF LEASES,
AND THE SMALL DEBTS RECOVERY ACT,

SYDNEY:

W. A. COLMAN, 485, GEORGE STREET.

1847.

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TO THE MAGISTRATES

OF NEW SOUTH WALES,

AND THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES GENERALLY,

This Edition

OF A WORK DESIGNED TO ELUCIDATE THE

LAW AND PRACTICE RELATIVE TO

THE DUTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE EDITOR.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE " AUSTRALIAN MAGISTRATE" was originally written in 1835, by John Hubert Plunkett, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney-General, and a second edition by M. Murphy, Esq., J.P., appeared in 1840. Both those editions having long been out of print, I was induced, at the suggestions of some friends, to undertake the task of preparing a third,—the result of my labours I now submit to the public.

So many alterations have taken place in the law relative to the duties of Justices of the Peace in this Colony, since the Work was first published,, that I have been obliged to re-write by far the greater portion of it,— much of the original Work having become altogether obsolete, and other parts requiring considerable alteration.

The publication too of Mr. Callaghan's useful Workthe "Acts of Council"-has, I conceive, rendered a strict adherance to the precise words of every enactment referred to unnecessary, I have therefore in many instances