THE COUNTY
Introduction.
The Legal Constitution of the County.
(a) The Area and Divisions of the County; (b) The Custos Rotulorum; (c) The Sheriff and his Court; (d) The High Constable; (e) The Coroner; (f) The Commission of the Peace; (g) County Service; (h) An Organ of National Government.
On some Anomalous County Jurisdictions, including the Counties Palatine.
The Rulers of the County.
(a) Number and Distribution of Justices; (b) The Justice of Mean Degree; (c) The Trading Justice; (d) The Court Justice; (e) The Sycophant Justice and Rural Tyrant; (f) The Mouth-piece of the Clerk; (g) The Clerical Justice; (h) The Leader of the Parish; (i) Leaders of the County; (j) The Lord-Lieutenant and the High Sheriff; (k) Class Exclusiveness.
County Administration by Justices out of Sessions.
(a) The "Single Justice"; (b) The "Double Justice"; (c) The Special Sessions; (d) Petty Sessions; (e) The Servants of the Justices; (f) The Sphere of Justices "Out of Sessions."
The Court of Quarter Sessions.
(a) The Time and Place of Meeting; (b) The Chairman of the Court; (c) The Procedure of the Court; (d) Administration by Judicial Process; (e) The Grand Jury; (f) The Hundred Jury; (g) Presentments by Constables; (h) Presentments by Justices.
The Development of an Extra-legal Constitution.
I. The County Executive.
(a) The High Sheriff and his Bailiffs; (b) The High Constable; (c) The Clerk of the Peace; (d) The County Treasurer; (e) The County Surveyor; (f) Executive Makeshifts; (g) Committees of Justices.
II. An Inchoate Provincial Legislature.
III. An Extra-legal County Oligarchy.
The Reaction Against the Rulers of the County.
(a) The Breakdown of the Middlesex Bench; (b) The Lack of Justices; (c) The Restriction of Public Houses; (d) The Justices' Poor Law; (e) The Growth of County Expenditure; (f) The Severity of the Game Laws; (g) The Stopping up of Footpaths; (h) The Stripping of the Oligarchy; (i) Why the Justices Survived.
LONGMANS. GREEN & CO.
LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
Demy 8vo, pp. viii and 858, in 2 volumes (1908). Price 25s. net.