JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND Parish Officer. THE TWENTY-NINTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED, CONTAINING THE CASES & STATUTES TO 7 & 8 VICT., INCLUSIVE, WITH A New Collection of Precedents. THE TITLE "POOR" BY MR. COMMISSIONER BERE, OF THE EXETER DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, THE REST OF THE WORK BY THOMAS CHITTY, Esq., OF THE INNER TEMPLE. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL V. LONDON: SWEET; MAXWELL & SON; AND STEVENS' & NORTON, Law Booksellers & Publishers; HODGES & SMITH, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PARISH OFFICER. Machinery, Malicious Injuries to, see post," Malicious Injuries to Property;" "Hundred," Vol. III.-Exportation of, see post, "Manufactures." Madmen. See "Lunatics, " Vol. III. Magistrates. See "Justices of the Peace," Vol. III. Mail, Stealing, &c., from, see post, "Post Office;" see also tit." Carriers," Vol. I. Maim. MAIM is such a hurt of any part of a man's body, whereby he is ren- What it is. 205.) striking out his eye or foretooth, or castrating him, are said to be maims, but the cutting off his ear, or nose, was not esteemed as a maim at the common law, because it does not weaken, but only disfigures him. (1 The cutting off, or disabling, or weakening a man's hand or finger, or Whatnot a maim. Hawk. c. 44, s. 2.) A who maims himself, that he may have the more colour to beg, Cheats by maim may be indicted and fined. (1 Inst. 127.) person VOL. V. B |