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Rh 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.

, 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.

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 * 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.