(LAW) Richard Starke The Office and Authority of a Justice o

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(LAW.) Richard Starke. The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace Explained and Digested. [4], 353, [3] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached and rehinged with tape; intermittent foxing, minor dampstaining, apparently lacking a rear flyleaf; inscriptions by 1793 owner William N. Lane on free endpapers. Williamsburg, VA: Alexander Purdie and John Dixon, 1774

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This purports to be a completely different work than the 1736 George Webb book by the almost identical name, which was described by Evans as "the first work of its kind produced in the United States" (4101). Starke was a Virginia attorney who died in 1772 before the book was complete. His manuscript was edited by friends to benefit his "numerous and distressed Family." Pages 325 to 330 are devoted to the laws relating to slavery. The running title reads "The Virginia Justice." Evans 13637; Sabin 90521.