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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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238 36 E. 3, CAP. 15, PLEAS IN ENGLISH.
176* Who shall be Justices of the Peace, and what Authority they
shall have. Cro. El. 148, 689. 8 Co. 36. 1 Ed. 3, Stat. 2, c. 16. 2 Ed. S,
c. 6. 18 Ed. 3, Stat. 2, c. 2. 18 R. 2, Stat. 1, c. 7. 2 H. 5, Stat. 1, c. 4.
This Statute empowers justices to bind over "to the good behaviour."
It is explained in 4 Black. Comm. 256, and see 1 Hawk. P. C. 132. How far
the provisions of the Statute ought to be enforced at the present day may
be a matter of question.1 In 2 Arch. Just. 454, justices are recommended
to abstain from acting under it, where no complaint requiring such
recognizances to be taken has been made, except only in eases where a
conviction for some offence of a dangerous kind has taken place, and cir-
cumstances render probable a repetition of it by the same offender.
1 It is said in State v. Glenn, 54 Md. 603, that where there is a proper
foundation laid, a justice may require a party to give surety for his good
behavior towards the state and the people generally under the above
statute and upon failure to do so, he may commit the party to prison. Cf.
Hyde v. Greuch, 62 Md. 677.
As to duties of justices as investigators of charges for indictable
offenses, see McBee v. Fulton, 47 Md. 403, 425; as conservators of the
peace, see Hagerstown v. Dechert, 32 Md. 369.
STATUTES
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno 36 EDW. III. and A. D. 1362.
CAP. XV.
Pleas shall Ie pleaded in the English Tongue, and enrolled in Latin.

Item, Because it is often
.shewed to the King by the
Prelates, Dukes, Earls, Ba-
rons, and all the Commonalty,
of the great Mischiefs which
have happened to divers of the
Realm, because the Lavs,
Customs, and Statutes of this
Realm be not commonly holden and kept in the same
Realm, for that they be plead-
ed, shewed, and judged in the
Item pur ce qe monstre est
soventfoitz au roi par prelatz
dues counts barons & tout la
commune les grantz meschiefs
qe sont advenuz as plusors du
reaime de ce qe les leyes cus-
tumes & estatutz du dit reaime
ne sont pas conuz commune-
ment en mesme Ie reaime par
cause qils sont pledez monstrez

 

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