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jurisdiction of the justice. If a justice of 
the peace will not, on complaint to him 
made, execute his office, or if he shall mis- 
behave in his office, the party grieved may 
move the Court of King’s Bench for an in- 
formation, and afterwards may apply to the 
Court of Chancery to put him out of the 
commission. But the most usual way of 
compelling justices to execute their office, 
in any case, is by writ of mandamus out of 
the Court of King’s Bench. 
At^here tlie plaintiff in an action against a 
justice shall obtain a verdict, and the judge 
shall in open court certify on the back of 
the record, that the injury for which such 
action was brought was wilfully and mali- 
ciously committed, the plaintiff shall have 
double costs. And if a justice of peace act 
improperly, knowingly, information shall 
be granted. No justice shall be liable to 
be punished both ways, that is, criminally 
and civilly ; but before the court will grant an 
information, they will require the party to 
relinquish his civil action, if any such be 
commenced. And even in the case of an 
indictment, and though the indictment be 
actually found, the Attorney General, on 
application made to him, will grant a noli 
prosequi upon such indictment, if it appear 
to him that the prosecutor is determined to 
carry on a civil action at the same time. 
If any action shall be brought against a 
justice for any thing done by virtue of his 
office, he may plead the general issue, and 
give the special matter in evidence ; and if 
he recover, he shall have double costs. 
Such action shall not be laid but in the 
county where the fact was committed. And 
no suit shall be commenced against a justice 
of the peace till after one month’s notice. 
And unless it is proved upon the trial that 
such notice was given, the justice shall have 
a verdict and costs. And no action shall be 
brought against any constable or other of 
ticer, or any person acting by his order and 
in his aid, for any thing done in obedience 
to the warrant of a justice, till demand hath 
been made, or left at the usual place of his 
abode, by the party or by his attorney, in 
writing, signed by the party demanding tlie 
same, ot the perusal and copy ofsuch warrant, 
and the same has been refirsed or neglected 
t'pr six days after such demand. And no 
action ffiall be brought against any justice 
for any thing done in the execution ofhis 
office, unless commenced within six months 
after the act committed. 
JUSTICIA, in botany, so named from 
James Justice, a genus of the Diandria Mo- 
nogynia class and older. Natural order of 
Personatse. Acanthi, Jussieu. Essential 
character : corolla ringerit ; capsule two- 
celled, opening with an elastic claw ; sta- 
mina with a .single anther. There are eighty 
species, mostly natives of the Cape of Good 
Hope and the East Indies. There are only 
two commonly known in our English gar- 
dens, iiiz. J. adhatodar, Malabar nut ; and 
J. hyssopifolia, snap tree. 
JUSTICIES is a writ directed to the 
sheriff to do justice in a plea of trespass 
vi et armis, or of any sum above 40a'. in the 
county court, of which he hath no cogni- 
zance by ordinary power. It is in the na- 
ture of a commission to the sheriff, and is 
not returnable. 
IXIA, in botany, a genus of the Trian- 
dria Monogynia class and order. Natural 
order of Enfsatae. Irides, Jussieu. Essen- 
tial character : corolla one-petalled, tubu- 
lar ; tube straight, filiform ; border six- 
parted, bell-shaped, regular ; stigmas three 
or six, simple. There are fifty four species. 
Ixia differs from antholyzain having the seg- 
ments of the corolla nearly equal ; from 
gladiolus, in the situation of the segments 
of the corolla, and in having the tube 
straight. Almost all the species are natives 
of the Cape of Good Hope. 
IXORA, in botany, a genus of the Te- 
trandria Monogynia class and order. Na- 
tural order of Stellata;. Riibiacem, Jus- 
sieu. Essential character ; corolla onc- 
petalled, funnel-form, long, superior ; stami- 
na above the mouth; berry four-seeded. 
There are nine species, of which I, Ame- 
ricana, American ixora, has a .shrubby 
stalk, four or five feet high, sending opt slen- 
der opposite branches ; leaves nearly six 
inches long, on .short foot stalks. Flowers 
at the ends of the branches in a loose spike; 
they are white, and have a scent like jas- 
mine, whence in Jamaica and other islands 
of the West Indies, where it is a native, it 
is called wild jasmine. 
