THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR IRELAND: GIVING, IN AN ABRIDGED AND ALPHABETICAL FORM AND Order, THE SEVERAL OFFENCES AND OTHER CAUSES OF COMPLAINT; THE SUBJECTS OF SUMMARY ADJUDICATION; THE STATUTES RELATING THERETO; THE EXTENT OF JURISDICTION; AND WHETHER TRIABLE BY ONE OR MORE JUSTICES. AND, IN LIKE ALPHABETICAL ORDER, AN EPITOME OF THE CRIMES AND OFFENCES TRIABLE BY INDICTMENT. AND, AS AN APPENDIX, "THE PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) ACT, 1851," (With Notes pointing out to what extent it is applicable to or affected by prior and subsequent Legislation); THE FINES (IRELAND) ACTS; THE LICENSING (LIQUOR) LAWS; LAW OF EVIDENCE ACTS; ABSTRACTS OF OTHER USEFUL AND IMPORTANT STATUTES; FORMS TO BE USED IN PARTICULAR CASES, AND UNDER SPECIAL ACTS; CIRCULAR LETTERS ISSUED FROM DUBLIN CASTLE FOR THE DIRECTIONS AND GUIDANCE OF THE MAGISTRATES AND THE CLERKS OF PETTY SESSIONS, &c. BY HENRY HUMPHREYS. EIGHTH EDITION. DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., GRAFTON-STREET. PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. THE publication of this, the eighth edition of the Justice of the Peace, is in response to the many calls for it made on the Author and his Publishers. The work has for some time been out of print. Little more than five years have elapsed between this edition and the last preceding one. During this short intervening space many legislative changes will be noticeable, both in the law and the administration of it. 66 66 The Faculty", or Special Jurisdiction, conferred by the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act, 1887", is at once a graft on, and modification of, the general Petty Sessions procedure, when this latter is employed in working out that special jurisdiction. The Courts so constituted, commonly known as "Crimes Act Courts', have, from the nature of things, met with stern opposition, the entire chain of procedure challenged and contested step by step-of course under such a strain the strength of the whole chain is always just that of the weakest link. Parliament, the Bar, and the public Press were not silent spectators, all eagerly took part and took sides. Venerable statutes-ancient precedents of almost forgotten lore-were re-furbished and had new life added to them. The Act of 1860-1 (the 34th of King Edward III.) proved to be a right Damascus blade, keen of edge and of wonderful flexibility. The King's Bench, too, as the great conservator of the peace of the realm, brought forth to like purpose from its armoury an original inherent jurisdiction anterior to any known statutes. It is true that in determining some questions |