Excerpt from Treatise on the Offices of High Sheriff, Undersheriff, Bailiff, &C: Including Their Duties at Elections of Members of Parliament and Coroners; And at Assizes, Sessions,& Parliamentary Election Courts; Also on Railway Compensation Cases, and the Execution of Writs Since the publication of the last edition of this work numerous alterations have taken place in the law and practice connected with the office of Sheriff. The Bankruptcy Act, the Debtors Act, the Ballot Act, the Judicature Acts, and the Prison Act, have each in turn rendered obsolete large portions of the text. It has therefore been found necessary to re-write those parts of it but great care has been taken to preserve, as far as possible, the brevity of style of the earlier editions, and to refrain from corrections, except in cases where the materials could not have been before the learned Author. The work still remains cumbered with the treatment of some practically obsolete subjects, such as Outlawry. SO long, however, as the law allows such proceedings to 'be taken, the book would be, incomplete. 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.