Excerpt from The Justice of the Peace for Ireland: Comprising the Practice in Indictable Offences, and the Proceedings Preliminary and Subsequent to Convictions; With an Appendix of the Most Useful Statutes, and an Alphabetical Catalogue of Offences The Editor has undertaken the compilation of this work, believing that such a treatise is at present much needed by the Magistrates of Ireland. He has endeavoured to em body in one volume their whole duties out of Quarter Sessions, commencing with their jurisdiction over persons charged with the commission of indictable crimes; pro ceeding with their authority to convict summarily and concluding with an Appendix of the most useful statutes for general reference. There will also be found a catalogue of offences, and the acts under which the J ustioes may be called upon to adjudicate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.