The office and authority of a justice of peace : and also the duty of sheriffs, coroners, church-wardens, surveiors of highways, constables, and officers of militia : together with precedents of warrants, judgements, executions, and other legal process, issuable by magistrates within their respective jurisdictions, in cases civil or criminal : and the method of judicial proceedings, before justices of peace, in matters within their cognizance out of sessions : collected from the common and statute laws of England, and acts of Assembly, now in force, and adapted to the constitution and practice of Virginia /