THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND Parish Officer. BY RICHARD BURN, LL. D. The Twenty-eighth Edition. CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED, AND WITH MANY NEW TITLES; AND CONTAINING A NEW COLLECTION OF PRECEDENTS. THE TITLES "EXCISE AND CUSTOMS," "POOR," AND "TAXES," BY J. CHITTY, Esq., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. THE REST OF THE WORK BY THOMAS CHITTY, Esq., OF THE INNER TEMPLE. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: S. SWEET, 1, CHANCERY LANE; STEVENS & SONS, 39, BELL YARD; Law Booksellers & Publishers. 1837. 1 THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PARISH OFFICER. Easter Offerings. THESE, though of an ecclesiastical nature, are, when they do not exceed the yearly amount of forty shillings, recoverable by information and conviction before two justices, under 7 & 8 Will. III. c. 6, amended by 7 & 8 leo. IV. c. 15. See Chit. Col. Stat. 1055, 1060; post, tit. " Tithes," Vol. V. East India Company. oath relative to 'HE 1 & 2 Geo. IV. c. 61, s. 6, enacts, "That if any person shall be Making a false onvicted of making a false oath, touching any of the matters directed or certain East equired by that act, (an act to regulate the appropriation of unclaimed India prize ares of prize money, belonging to soldiers or seamen in the service of money, deemed perjury. ⚫ East India Company) to be testified on oath, such persons so convicted il be deemed guilty of perjury, and liable to be punished as persons ty of perjury in England." And if any person shall corruptly procure or suborn any other person Persons subornwear falsely in any such oath, such person being duly convicted of ing. procuring and suborning shall suffer such pains, &c. as persons coned of perjury are liable to." See further as to perjury in general, “Perjury,” Vol. V. s to Forgery on, see "Forgery," Vol. II.-As to depositions in, see 13 J. III. c. 63, and 1 Will. IV. c. 22. (Davis v. Nicholson, 7 Bing. 358.). Ecclesiastics and Ecclesiastical Courts: See" Clergy,” “Church,” |