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GENERAL INDEX.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE-Continued.
- if justice or constable purchase - penalty, 868.
- if live-stock taken, constable to be paid for keeping the same, 868.
- constable to make out inventory, &c.,869.
- when goods remain unsold, 369.
- if constable permits party to retain possession, 369.
- when crops, &c., are attached, 369.
- when constable returns, his inability to levy in time prescribed, 869.
Of Constables Duties, 860.
- may execute process throughout county, 860.
- to serve what papers to them directed, 860.
- may call to their aid the power of the county, 360.
- make returns, when, 360.
- note time of receiving and executing, 860.
- "not found" only, when, 860.
- act as conservators of the peace, 860.
- authority extends throughout county, 860.
- when person is committed to jail, 861.
- shall pay over money to whom, 381.
- penalty for making improper return, 861.
General Provisions.
- provisions of civil code applicable to justices' courts, 861.
- justices to keep docket, and enter what in same, 861.
- particulars, when and where entered, 862.
- entered in justices' docket, evidence, 862.
- alphabetical index to be kept, 862.
- deliver books and papers to successor, 363.
- if there be no successor, &c., 363.
- justices receiving, to give receipts, 368.
- powers of justices with whom docket may be left, in certain cases, 368.
- summons and other papers void, unless blanks filled, 864.
- justice may deputize persons to serve process, with what power, 864.
- punishment for contempt, in what cases, 864.
- warrant of arrests, &c., 864.
- conviction must be entered in docket, 864.
- warrant of commitment, when issued, 864.
- when person bringing action is non-resident, 365.
- if they remove after commencement of action, 365.
- in actions founded on bonds, sealed bills, promissory note, &c., 865.
- if justice purchase judgment on his docket -- penalty, 866.
- no imprisonment for debt, 366.
- nothing in that act applies to exempted property, 866.
- Act defining the Jurisdiction of Justices in Criminal Cases, and Proceedings therein, 367.
- have jurisdictions of what cases, 887.
- cases, how commenced, 867.
- information contain what, 367.
- form of information, 867.
- same filed, and time of filing noted, 867.
- may then issue warrant for arrest, 367.
- how the same shall be served, 368.
- proceedings, when defendant is brought before justice, 368.
- pleas of defendant, 868
- justice must try without jury, except when, 368.
- if change of venue applied for, 868.
- when allowed, justice must transmit papers, &c., 368.
- defendant may demand jury before taking testimony, 369.
- if jury is demanded, how made up, 369.
