Note 39 — Book I.
John Beames translation
The Reg. Maj. makes this allegation a ground of the Sheriff’s Jurisdiction (L. 1. c. 3.) “In this distinction, between the Sheriff’s Jurisdiction and that of the King, we see the reason of the allegation in modern Indictments and Writs, “vi et armis,” “of the king’s crown and dignity,” “the king’s peace,” and “the peace,” this last expression being sufficient, after the peace of the Sheriff had ceased to be distinguished as a separate Jurisdiction.” (Vide Reeves’s Hist. Eng. Law. 1. 113.)