Officium vicecomitum The office and authority of sheriffs : gathered out of the statutes, and books of the common laws of this kingdom / by Michael Dalton, late of Lincolns Inn, Esq ; and one of the masters of the Chancery. To which is added an appendix or supplement, containing a collection of the statutes touching sheriffs made since Mr. Dalton's writing, which are in force and use at this day; also several special returns of writs, and the expositions, judgments, and resolutions of the reverend and learned judges, in the several courts at Westminster; upon divers statutes, cases and questions in law relating to sheriffs; and several other new matters. The whole, being a work of great use and profit, not only to the students and practitioners in the law, but to all other the gentry of this land, (on whom the burthen of this office lyeth) especially t all immediate high-sheriffs and under-sheriffs. With a new and copious table, ... Purged from the errors of all former impressions

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