Supplement

TO THE

TWENTY-THIRD EDITION

OF

DR. BURN'S

Justice of the Peace,

AND

PARISH OFFICER;

INCLUDING

The STATUTES from the 1st GEO. IV., 1820,
To the 3d GEO. IV., 1822;

And the ADJUDGED CASES to the End of Trinity Term, 1822;

TOGETHER WITH

SEVERAL NEW PRECEDENTS.

BY GEORGE CHETWYND, Esq. M.P.

BARRISTER AT LAW,

AND CHAIRMAN OF THE GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS OF THE PEACE
FOR THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD.

LONDON:

Printed by A. STRAHAN,

Law-Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty;

For T. CADELL, in the Strand;

F. C. & J. RIVINGTON, St. Paul's Church-Yard, & Waterloo-Place;
JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH and Son, Fleet-Street;

and LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, and BROWN,

Paternoster-Row,

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE

HE very flattering manner in which the twentythird edition of DR. BURN'S JUSTICE OF THE PEACE has been received by the Public, and the numerous assurances of approbation which have reached the Editor from Magistrates not only in his own, but in distant counties, where he has not the honour of being personally known, have been his strongest inducements to resume his labour, and to prepare this SUPPLEMENT.

*

If he be blamed for an apparent dereliction of his own plan, as avowed in his former preface, in thus presenting a further accumulation of matter, he is content to vindicate himself in the following quaint but pithy words of the learned Lambarde, in his Eirenarcha (first published in 1581): "If Hussey, (the Chiefe Justice, 1 Hem. 7. 3.) did thinke that it "was enough to foade afl the Justices of the Peace "of those dayes, with the Execution onely of the "Statutes of Winchester and Westminster, for Rob"beries and Felonies: the Statute of Forcible Entries: "the Statute of Labourers, Vagabonds, Liueries, "Maintenance, Embracery, and Sherifes: Then, how

many Justices, (thinke you) may now suffice (with"out breaking their backs) to beare so many, not "loads, but stacks of statutes, that have since that "time bene laid upon them?"’

* Sir William Blackstone recommends this work to the perusal of students. 1 Com. 354.- The best edition is that of 1619.

Alarming, however, as the rapid march of legislation in modern times may be, the Editor is not without hopes that its progress may, henceforward, tend rather to abbreviate than to enlarge the number of statutes calling for the magistrates' notice; and to limit, within reasonable bounds, the work of which this Supplement is a continuation.

He willingly avails himself of the opportunity thus offered of expressing his gratitude to his friends for their continued support, and valuable communications. To his highly respected friend, The Honourable Mr. Justice Bayley, the Editor is peculiarly indebted for a perusal of his MS. Analysis of the Criminal Law, and other acts of kindness; and to the Reverend John Oldham, for his revisal of, and able assistance in compiling, this present volume. To Abraham Hawkins, Esquire, a very active and intelligent magistrate for the county of Devon; to Edward Stracey, Esquire, and to Francis Twemlow, Esquire, -he feels deeply obliged for various forms of proceedings, and many useful suggestions for the improvement of the work.

He cannot conclude without apologizing for the delay which has unavoidably occurred in the publication of this volume; which would have appeared at least two months earlier, but for a most severe illness with which he was attacked at the close of the last summer, and which prevented, for a considerable length of time, the possibility of his attending to the correction of the proof-sheets, or to any other object than the re-establishment of his health.

Brocton Lodge,

December 2. 1822.