BENDER'S JUSTICES' MANUAL...Justices of the Peace & Police Justices

by Baylies, Edwin; ed

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Albany:: Matthew Bender & Co.,, 1921. Cloth covers age-soiled; book block fore edge ink(?)-stained; last 150 pages lightly waterstained at top & fore edge not touching text except on last dozen or so pages.. + index to Penal Law. 5th Edn. `[N.Y.] Justice Court Act of 1921 [requires] this New Edition...[effective] October 1, 1921...Act is printed in full in this Work.' ||| Outlines--Office of Justice of the Peace; Jurisdiction in Civil / Special Proceedings; defines--with citations--rights & remedies in contracts, sales & warranties, negotiable instruments, liens & mortgages, torts, motor vehicles, rules of evidence, foreclosure, etc., with appropriate forms, etc. ||| Of historic interest today--laws prohibiting gambling, playing `policy' (the numbers), lotteries, indecency. ||| And--usury is defined as `a greater rate [of interest] than six percentum per annum.' Interesting.