Constables in Europe
Definition of Constables
Inferior officers of the peace. High constables were appointed at the Courts leet of the franchise or hundred over which they presided. Their duty seems to have been to keep the peace within the hundred. Petty or parish constables were appointed by the justices in petty sessions for the preservation of the peace within their parish or township, and the service of the summonses and the execution of the warrants of the justices of the peace. They have been superseded by the establishment of borough and county police
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