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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In English law

An otticer of publie justice, otherwise called “chief constable” and “constable of the hundred,” wliose proper duty is to keep the king’s peace within the hundred, as the petty constable does within the parish or township. § Steph. Comm. 46,47.

See Cons TaBLe.