A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace and Constables in the State of Ohio: With Practical Forms, &c. &c.
by [LAWÑOHIO]. Swan Joseph R.
Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1850. . Large 8vo full contemporary leather; red label on spine, wear to extremities; foxed throughout. "Fourth Edition, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged" In the manuals which went beyond the duties of the justices and treated the local law more broadly, including legal matters of immediate concern in the Justices' courts, such volumes became an important part of local legal literature. No better example can be cited that 'A Treatise on the Law...Justice of the Peace in Ohio'...This book had an amazing record with twenty-nine editions, the last published in 1942"ÑSurrency "A History of American Law Publishing" p. 132. Swan was briefly a member of the Ohio Supreme Court, he was a firm believer in abolition, but ruled in favor of Federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave ActÑSee DNB (Inventory #: 1865)