The Constable's Guide: Being a Concise Treatise on the Powers and...
"All the Instruction Needed" McCall, H[enry] S[trong] [1819-1893]. The Constable's Guide: Being a Concise Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Constables in the State of New York: to Which is Added an Appendix, Containing Most of the Practical Forms Necessary to be Used by Them in Their Several Duties. Albany: W. Gould & Son, 1882. viii, 234 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Original sheep, blind rules to boards, red and black lettering pieces to spine. Some rubbing to extremities, front joint and hinge cracked at ends. Offsetting to margins of endleaves, toning, light foxing in a few places. Gift inscription (from Thomas Campbell to John H. Schmall) to verso of front free endpaper, large pencil sketch of a woman's head to rear free endpaper, large owner signature (of John A. Schmall) to rear pastedown. $25. * Fourth edition. "The changes which have been made in the statutes, with reference to the powers of Constables, are very many, while the decisions of our several courts have served to elucidate many things which were formerly doubtful or uncertain. (...) [T]he Constable will no doubt find in the following pages all the instruction needed in the ordinary and responsible duties of his office" (Preface). OCLC locates two copies of this edition (at Brooklyn Law School & Temple University). Not in the Harvard Law Catalogue.
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