# Justices of the Peace Act 1361 34 Edw. 3 c. 1 ยท revised to 1 February 1991 A STATUTE made in the Parliament holden at Westminster; In the Thirty-fourth Year. ## Introductory text A STATUTE made in the Parliament holden at Westminster; In the Thirty-fourth Year. ## I Who shall be Justices of the Peace.Their Jurisdiction over Offenders; Rioters; Barrators; They may take Surety for good Behaviour. First, That in every County of England shall be assigned for the keeping of the Peace, one Lord, and with him three or four of the most worthy in the County, with some learned in the Law, and they shall have Power to restrain the Offenders, Rioters, and all other Barators, and to pursue, arrest, take, and chastise them according their Trespass or Offence; and to cause them to be imprisoned and duly punished according to the Law and Customs of the Realm, and according to that which to them shall seem best to do by their Discretions and good Advisement; . . . ; and to take and arrest all those that they may find by Indictment, or by Suspicion, and to put them in Prison; and to take of all them that be not of good Fame, where they shall be found, sufficient Surety and Mainprise of their good Behaviour towards the King and his People, and the other duly to punish; to the Intent that the People be not by such Rioters or Rebels troubled nor endamaged, nor the Peace blemished, nor Merchants nor other passing by the Highways of the Realm disturbed, nor put in the Peril which may happen of such Offenders: . . . --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw3/34/1 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1361 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.