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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a court of quarter-sessions, with power to try for all offences not capital. The parish comprises 8300 acres, of … The recorder holds quarterly courts of session, for all offences not capital; a court of petty-sessions occurs every …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survive of the manorial courts or 'halimots'. 3 Among the offences reported are the usual ones of unrepaired houses, … presented for overcharging. 9 In addition to these common offences, nuisances on the highway and cases of assault, … letting part of the prison to lodgers, and with other offences. The keeper had lived at Aylesbury for the past …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… his Proclamation, might make Ordinances for Punishment of Offences, and lay Penalties, which should have the force of a … Soldiers for those Parts; by both which Records, being for Offences done so long before, it appeareth that those that …