The South-Carolina justice of peace [electronic resource] : containing all the duties, powers and authorities of that office, as regulated by the laws now of force in this state, and adapted to the parish and county magistrate. : To which is added, a great variety of warrants, indictments and other precedents, interspersed under their several heads, and a summary of several of the decisions which have been had in the courts of this state. : Volume. I[-III]. : Entered in the secretary's office of the state of South-Carolina, 11th October, 1788, agreeable to the act of Assembly in that case made and provided, entitled "An act for the encouragement of arts and sciences." Ratified the 26th of March, 1784. Peter Freneau, secretary