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Malicious Damage Act 1861
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62Mode of compelling the Appearance of Persons punishable on summary Conviction.
Where any Person shall be charged on the Oath of a credible Witness before any Justice of the Peace with any Offence punishable on summary Conviction under this Act, the Justice may summon the Person charged to appear at a Time and Place to be named in such Summons; and if he shall not appear accordingly, then (upon Proof of the due Service of the Summons upon such Person by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving the same at his usual Place of Abode,) the Justice may either proceed to hear and determine the Case ex parte, or issue his Warrant for apprehending such Person and bringing him before himself or some other Justice of the Peace; or the Justice before whom the Charge shall be made may (if he shall so think fit), without any previous Summons (unless where otherwise specially directed), issue such Warrant; and the Justice before whom the Person charged shall appear or be brought shall proceed to hear and determine the Case.
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