 | Joseph Polsue - Cornwall (England : County) - 1872 - 566 pages
...civil causes. As keeper of the peace he ia bound to pursue and take all murderers, felons, traitors, and other misdoers, and commit them to gaol for safe custody ; he may apprehend and commit to prison all persons who break the peace, or attempt to break it ; and is... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 842 pages
...may award process of the peace, and bind any one in recognizance to keep it. He is bound, ex qfficio, to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons, and other misdoers, and commit them to jail for safe custody. For these purposes he may command the posse comitatus or power of the country... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 782 pages
...; and may bind any one in a recognizance to keep the king's peace. He may, and is bound ex qfficio to pursue, and take all traitors, murderers, felons,...misdoers, and commit them to gaol for safe custody. lie is also to defend his county against any of the king's enemies when they come into the land : and... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1880 - 824 pages
...recognizance to keep the peace. He may, and is bound, ex officio, to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, and other misdoers, and commit them to gaol for safe custody. He is also to defend his county against any of the king's enemies when they come into the hind ; and for this purpose, as well... | |
 | Sydney Hastings - Torts - 1885 - 532 pages
...peace, or attempt to break it. He may ex officio pursue and take all traitors, murderers, and felons, and commit them to gaol for safe custody. He is also to defend his county against any of the Queen's enemies when they come into the land ; and for this purpose, as well... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1346 pages
...break it; and might bind any one in recognizance to keep the king's peace. He was bound ex officio to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons, and other misdoers and commit them to jail for safe custody. He was also to defend his county against any of the king's enemies when they... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 pages
...attempt to break it; he may award process of the peace, and bind any one in recognizance to keep it. He is bound, ex ojficio, to pursue and take all traitors,...murderers, felons and other misdoers, and commit them to jail for safe custody. For these purposes he may command the posse comitatus or power of the county;... | |
 | Henry Humphreys - Criminal law - 1890 - 952 pages
...county, and superior in rank to any nobleman therein, during his office. He may, and is bound ex oßcio to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons,...misdoers, and commit them to gaol for safe custody. He is abo to defend his country against any of the Queen's enemies when they come into the land, and for... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...it ; and may bind any one in recognizance to keep the king's peace. He may and is bound ex offirio to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons...to gaol for safe custody. He is also to defend his county against any of the king's enemies when they come into the land : and for this purpose, as well... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1064 pages
...county," and superior in rank to any nobleman therein during his office. " He may and is bound ex officio to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons,...to gaol for safe custody. He is also to defend his county against any of the king's enemies when they come into the land; and for this purpose, as well... | |
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He may and is bound ex officio to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons and other misdoers, and commit them to gaol for safe custody. He is also to defend his county against any of the king's enemies when they come into the land... 
