Excerpt from Paley's Law and Practice of Summary Convictions Under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, 1848-1884: Including Proceedings Preliminary and Subsequent to Convictions, and the Responsibility of Convicting Magistrates and Their Officers, With the Summary Jurisdiction Rules, 1886, and Forms Thirteen years have elapsed since the publication of the last edition of this work, and during that considerable interval of time many important Statutes have been passed, Rules issued, and Decisions given, affecting the procedure, jurisdiction, and duties of justices sitting in petty sessions. In the present edition the statute law has been brought down to the end of the session 55 56 of the Queen, and the judicial decisions to September, 1892, are also included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.