RECOMMENDATIONS OF BINNS'S JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. DEAR SIR: Philadelphia, January 28, 1840. The sheets of " Binns's Justice," which you did me the honor to submit to my inspection, have been carefully examined; and though sensible that nothing detracts so much from the value of a recommendation as an apparent disposition to overpraise, I feel confident that the book will fully bear me out in saying, it is a well-digested compend of all that is necessary to qualify a young magistrate for a useful and honorable disharge of his functions. It offers to him the fruits of long experience and accurate research; and it opens to him a repository of legal principles, with minute directions for their use, from which he may readily draw whatever is necessary to conduct him safely in the new and untrodden path of his duty. The Docket Entries, for instance, given as specimens of method in recording the general parts and transactions of a suit-matters in which, more frequently than in any other, magistrates are at fault-though compendious, are sufficiently full; and a reasonable attention to the marginal specimens of taxation, will guard the unwary from those inadvertent charges of fees, which serve too often to put the magistrate in the power of the suitor, and to involve him in a contest about farthings, which may cost him dollars; to say nothing of the loss of character, which, right or wrong, follows an infliction of the penalty annexed to extortion. These, however, are comparatively trifling instances of the value of the book: as a manual, it will be more signally useful in furnishing a safe and ready guide in the most complicated forms of proceedings, such as summary convictions, and many others. The matter is, for the most part, original, and supplies whatever has been omitted in other treatises. It will afford assistance, not only to the judicial magistrate, but to every county and township officer; and it will reward the citizen for a careful perusal of it, with much exact knowledge of his civil and political rights, as well as of his correlative duties. Not doubting that the inculcation of moral principle which pervades the whole, will influence the character, and elevate the standing, of the magistracy, I am, dear sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN B. GIBSON, I fully concur in the above. MOLTON C. ROGERS, One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. I have seen a portion of Mr. Binns's proposed publication, relative to justices of the peace, and think it will furnish an excellent manual on the subject, more especially to the magistracy. It seems to me to be well adapted to the present wants of the community. THOMAS SERGEANT, One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, January 31, 1840. JUDGE HUSTON [of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania] presents his compliments to John Binns, Esq., and informs him that since the sheets of his book were left for perusal, he has been too unwell to peruse much of it. He has been in court every day, but at home has been lying on a bed most of his time. He can, therefore, only say, that from the very limited inspection of the work, he has formed a very favorable opinion of it, and believes it will be what, from his knowledge of the author, and from the general character of the author, he, and the community, expected, viz.: a full and accurate trea tise on the office and duties of a justice of the peace. February 1, 1840. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SECOND EDITION. DEAR SIR: February 3, 1845. The forthcoming "Magistrate's Daily Companion" is a decisive improvement on "Binns's Justice." Its abstracts of reported cases, arranged under proper heads, offer, not only to the magistrate, but the citizen of any profession, a cheap and easy means of obtaining a competent knowledge of the laws under which he lives. In affairs of magnitude he will, of course, consult a professional adviser, but the ordinary transactions of business momentarily require a familiar knowledge of common-place principles, which be more readily obtain from the digested summary now offered to him, than from the scattered pages of a law-library, were it even at hand. For instance, the farmer, the laborer, the mechanic, or the shop-keeper, who attends to your instructions, will no longer be in danger of losing the price of his work or his goods, from ignorance of the few and simple elements of book-entries to charge a customer. These abstracts are not only accurately made, but adapted to popular apprehension; and I feel confident the work will supply, for the present, all that was wanted. Very truly, your obedient servant, TO MR. ALDERMAN BINNS. JOHN B. GIBSON, Philadelphia, February 4th, 1845. DEAR SIR: I have carefully examined, with much satisfaction, a portion of your "Magistrate's Daily Companion, and Business-Man's Legal Guide." Your arrangement is capital, and you have taken great pains to insure its legal accuracy. It should be in the hands of every magistrate, as well as young lawyer and man of business. I wish it general circulation, because I am confident it will be of great utility. You deserve the thanks of the community for this work. I have no doubt it will live when you are dead. Every relation in life will find your book useful. With respect, your obedient servant, THOS. BURNSIDE, Alderman JOHN BINNS. RECOMMENDATION OF THE THIRD EDITION. From the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. MESSRS. KAY & BROTHER: Gentlemen: Binns's Justice is not only the best, but the only very good book that we have on the subject. The present edition, containing, as it does, a large addition of valuable and well-digested matter, makes it all that the magistrate can desire. JOHN B. GIBSON, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. MOLTON C. ROGERS, T. BURNSIDE, R. COULTER, THOS. S. BELL, Justices of the Supreme Court. (ii) OR Magistrate's Daily Companion. A TREATISE ON THE OFFICE AND DUTIES OF ALDERMEN AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, INCLUDING ALL THE REQUIRED FORMS OF PROCESS AND DOCKET-ENTRIES, AND EMBODYING NOT ONLY WHATEVER MAY BE DEEMED VALUABLE TO JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, BUT TO A SAFE LEGAL GUIDE FOR BUSINESS MEN. BY JOHN BINNS, LATE ALDERMAN OF WALNUT WARD, IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. EIGHTH EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED BY FREDERICK C. BRIGHTLY, ESQ., AUTHOR OF THE “UNITED STATES DIGEST, ," "FEDERAL DIGEST," "PURDON'S DIGEST," ETC. PHILADELPHIA: KAY & BROTHER, 17 & 19 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, |