Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, Vol. 11

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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, Vol. 11: With Forms and PrecedentsFrom the Conquest there was also gradually developed, with the improvement in the administration Of the law, a conception Of the peace, as representing the state Of law and order required by the superior Of the realm, or the county, or the manor, and breaches of the law or custom Of such areas came to be described as breaches of (or as against the peace Of the King, the sheriff (1 Seld. Soc. Pub. Or the lord of the manor (1 Seld. Soc. Pub. That the peace Of the King means his law and sovereignty is clear from an entry Of 1201 (1 Seld. Soc. Pub. Which Speaks of an event after the peace Of our Lord the King, then Duke Of Normandy and Lord of England, was sworn, referring to the end Of the interregnum between the death of Richard I. And accession of John. The Crown or central executive, gradually gaining strength, drew to itself, or treated as Offences contra pacem regis, all wrongful acts of public concern, and by the system Of circuits and presentments, coupled with amercements for not pre senting, acquired for its justices in eyre cognisance of all those matters which may be summarised as pleas Of the Crown. With the abolition Of the right Of the Sheriff to hold pleas of the Crown, this process became complete, and the scope Of the commissions of the justices in eyre was widened accordingly (1 Seld. Soc. Pub. Besides the itinerant Officers of the Crown, there were established resident Officers - first by writ, described as conservators Of the peace, and subsequently under statute and commission - as justices Of the peace (see justice OF the peace, commission OF the peace).All persons, whether subjects or aliens, who are within the King's peace were and are entitled to the protection of his laws and Officers, and correlatively are bound to respect them. In this wide sense every breach of the public law of the land is a breach Of the peace, and is SO described in an indictment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.