The New Virginia Justice
Hening, William Waller Excerpt from The New Virginia Justice: Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Together With a Variety of Useful Precedents, Adapted to the Laws Now in Force, to Which Is Added an AppendixWhile I profess and feel the highest veneration for the Virtue and talents which have adorned the English Benches of Justice (with one or two solitary exceptions) I am free to own, that, in my judgment, ...