§281. Power of courts to keep the peace; security required The Justices of the Superior Court and Judges of the District Court, in term time or in vacation, have power to cause all laws for the preservation of the public peace to be kept; and in the execution thereof may require persons to give security […]
§282. Complaint that offense threatened Any judge described in section 281, on complaint that any person threatens to commit an offense against the person or property of another, shall examine, on oath, the complainant and any other witnesses produced, reduce the complaint to writing and cause the complainant to sign it. If on examination of […]
§283. Complaint not sustained; frivolous or malicious If the judge, on examination of the facts, is not satisfied that there is just cause to fear the commission of any offense, he shall immediately discharge the accused. If he judges the complaint to be unfounded, frivolous or malicious, he may order the complainant to pay the […]
§284. Sureties to keep peace; costs; binding over When the accused is brought before the judge and his defense is heard, he may be ordered to recognize, with sufficient sureties, in the sum required by the judge, to keep the peace toward all persons and especially toward the person requiring the security, for a term […]
§285. Discharge on compliance; commitment If the accused complies with such order, he shall be discharged. If he does not, he shall be committed to jail for the time for which he was required to find sureties or until he complies with such order. The judge shall state in the mittimus the cause of commitment […]
§286. Appeals Any person aggrieved by the order of a judge requiring him to recognize as provided in section 284 may, on giving the security required, appeal to the next term of the Superior Court in the county. The judge shall thereupon require such witnesses as he thinks proper to recognize to appear at the […]
§287. Failure to prosecute appeal If the appellant fails to prosecute his appeal, his recognizance shall be in force for any breach of its conditions without an affirmation of said order and shall stand as security for any costs which he is ordered by the court to pay.
§288. Recognizance after commitment A person committed for not recognizing as aforesaid may be discharged by a Justice of the Superior Court or a bail commissioner on giving the security required.
§289. Recognizance returned to court; penalty remitted All recognizances taken under this chapter shall be returned to the Superior Court on or before the first day of the next term, and be there filed by the clerk as of record. In any action thereon, if the forfeiture is found or confessed, the court may remit […]
§290. Sureties may surrender principals; new recognizances Any surety in a recognizance taken under this chapter may surrender the principal the same as bail in civil cases, and he shall thereupon be discharged from liability for any subsequent breach of the recognizance. The principal may recognize anew with sufficient sureties for the residue of the […]
§291. Judge on view; sureties without formal complaint Whoever in the presence of any of the judges aforesaid or of any court of record makes an affray; threatens to kill or beat another or to commit any violence against his person or property; or contends with hot and angry words to the disturbance of the […]
§292. Persons going armed without reasonable cause Whoever goes armed with any dirk, pistol or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without just cause to fear an assault on himself, family or property may, on complaint of any person having cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties to […]
