The one-hundred and fifty-third volume of the Archives of Maryland series was originally published in 1690. The Archives of Maryland edition was published in 2000 by the Maryland State Archives.

The full title is: The Country Justice: containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions, gathered for the better help of such justices of peace as have not been much conversant in the study of the laws of this realm / by Michael Dalton; To which is now added: the duty and power of justices of peace in their sessions: an abridgment (under proper titles) of all statutes relating thereunto; a large table of the matters herein contained; with two other tables, one, of the chapters in this book, and other of such acts of Parliament as concern the office of a justice of the peace.