In 2 vols., 8vo. 63s. cloth, the ELEVENTH EDITION, much enlarged, of THE MAGISTERIAL SYNOPSIS; a Practical Guide for Magistrates, their Clerks, Attornies, and Constables; Summary Convictions and Indictable Offences, with their Penalties, Punishments, Procedure, &c.; being alphabetically and tabularly arranged: with a Copious Index. "Mr. Oke, in his preface to the eleventh edition, alludes to the unusually extensive alterations in, and additions to, the already wide jurisdiction of justices of the peace effected by Parliament during the sessions of 1869, 1870 and 1871. The insertion of many new titles and much new matter has by such legislation been rendered necessary, while other titles have been enlarged, rewritten, or condensed, as the experience of the author has suggested. Several minute changes have also been made in the references. Upon all these improvements the author tells us that he has bestowed his personal attention and the utmost care. We have therefore a perfect guarantee of the accuracy and propriety of all that is novel in the eleventh edition. We earnestly recommend to the higher classes of this country Mr. Oke's Synopsis, not as a mere reference index or dictionary to be snatched up at a moment of pressing need, but as a subject of quiet study. In conclusion, we beg to tender our warmest thanks to Mr. Oke for the immense boon conferred by him on the legal profession, the magistracy, and the whole community by his Synopsis, which now, as on a former occasion, we venture to designate as the standard guide of the magisterial bench, and the indispensable companion of every justice of the peace."-Law Journal. One thick volume, 8vo., 38s. cloth, the FOURTH EDITION, enlarged and improved, of THE MAGISTERIAL FORMULIST; being a complete Collection of Forms and Precedents for practical use in all Cases out of Quarter Sessions, and in Parochial Matters, by Magistrates, their Clerks, Attornies and Constables. "This work is too well known to need eulogy; it is in universal use in magistrates' courts. It has been out of print for some time, and a new edition was urgently required. We believe that Mr. Oke purposely delayed it that it might be made contemporaneous, or nearly so, with the 'Synopsis.' The contents are brought down to the end of last year, and consequently it includes all the forms required by the new statutes and decisions of the six years that have elapsed since the publication of the third edition. It is a book that has been known so long and so extensively, that no further description of it is needed now."— Law Times. 12mo., 10s. 6d. cloth, the SECOND EDITION of A HANDY BOOK of the GAME and FISHERY LAWS; containing the whole Law as to Game, Licences and Certificates, Poaching Prevention, Trespass, Rabbits, Deer, Dogs, Birds and Poisoned Grain throughout the United Kingdom, and Private and Salmon Fisheries in England. Systematically arranged, with the Acts, Decisions, Notes, Forms, Suggestions, &c. 12mo., 18s. cloth, 700 pages, the SECOND EDITION Of THE LAW of TURNPIKE ROADS; comprising the whole of the General Acts now in force, including those of 1861; the Acts as to Union of Trusts, for facilitating Arrangements with their Creditors; as to the interference by Railways with Roads, their Non-repair, and enforcing Contributions from Parishes, &c., practically arranged. With Cases, copious Notes, all the necessary Forms, and an elaborate Index, &c. AS TO LICENSING INNS, &c. &c. CONTAINING THE LICENSING ACT, 1872, AND THE OTHER ACTS IN FORCE AS TO ALEHOUSES, BEERHOUSES, WINE & REFRESHMENT HOUSES, With Explanatory Notes, the authorized Forms of Licences, BY GEORGE C. OKE, CHIEF CLERK TO THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON; Author of “The Magisterial Synopsis" (Eleven Editions), “The Magisterial pulisi” LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, PREFACE. THE object of this little Treatise is to supply a complete work of the Laws regulating the licensing and management of Public Houses and other places of public entertainment and resort, with other cognate matters, which, having some practical acquaintance with the subject, I have been induced to prepare for the Press. The Licensing Act, 1872, being the basis of the Work, its provisions, together with the multifarious existing enactments in the previous Acts, are embodied in their proper places,—a task, owing to the defects in that Act, the complications made by amendments instead of repeals, and the many questions publicly raised during the short time it has been in operation, by no means a light one. Departing from the usual method of editing a statute, the giving it in the order of the sections in the first part with notes, and the supplemental statutes in chronological order in another part-it appeared to me, and I had determined while the Bill was before |