MARRIED WOMAN. See WOMAN.
MASTER and SERVANT. See, generally, 627; and see APPRENTICE;
servant liable for his own criminal acts, 124; when responsible for acts
of servant, 123; settlement of disputes by J. P., 409; order for payment
of wages, 410; compensation for loss of time, 411; how wages recovered
in absence of master, 411; servants punished by J. P., 412; servants
hiring under false discharges, 412; if servant believes he has given suffi-
cient notice J. P. cannot convict, 409; what the service must be, 412; if
absent from one master with whom unlawfully hired, no breach of the
law, 412; for second offence, see 630; reference in case of disputes, 627;
misbehaviour, 629; neglecting work, 630; certificate of character, 631;
certificate or discharge to be produced before wages recovered, 628;
hiring whilst in service of another, 412; duration of hiring, 631; when
may be dismissed without notice, 632; starving or ill-using, 679; effect of
conviction, 630.
MASTERS AND SEAMEN. See generally, 633 to 642; disputes as to
wages, 410; as to jurisdiction of J. P. 633; power of distress, 634; their
duty to their crew, id.; meaning of term seaman, 635; seamen going to
sea without proper certificate, id.; agreements between, id.; discharge of
seamen, id.; false character of, id.; death and will of seamen, id.; landing
seamen, 636; master not providing proper food, id.; as to accommodation
to be afforded, id. ; misconduct of master or seamen, 637; desertion by,
id.; safety and prevention of accidents, 638; lights and fog signals, id. ;
travelling without paying proper fare, id.; taking dangerous goods on
board, 639; pilots, id.; exhibiting false lights, id.; as to wreck and
salvage, id. 640, 704; merchant seamen's fund, 640; foreign deserters
from ships, id.; offences in passenger ships, id. 641; Chinese ships, 642.
MASTERS of VESSELS. See 632; their duty as to customs, 632;
must come quickly to moorings, id.; as to loading and unloading, id. ;
shipping or unshipping goods on Sundays, id.; for offence of smuggling,
see 678; duty as to wreck, 704; duty in harbours, 602, 603; in relation
to their crew, 634; false statement as to their ship, 634.
MEAD, licence to sell on premises, 618.
MEADOW, trespass in, 420.
MEAL, frauds as to, 392.
MEALS, hours of, in factories, 508.
MEASURES. See WEIGHTS and MEASURES.
MEAT, offering bad for sale, 392, 393, 481; knowing same to be bad, 563;
exposing when bad, 392, 481; unwholesome, see powers as to, 563; when
adjudication after seizure, 563.
MEDICAL practitioner at inquests, 351; regulations as to practitioners,
633; witnesses at inquest, 256; officer to attend to dangerous lunatic, 290.
MEDICINES, selling bad on board ship, 636.
MEETINGS to train to the use of arms, 70, 702.
MENACES, and demanding property, 633, 492.
MERCHANT seamen, jurisdiction of J. P., 21; shipping, see generally,
633 to 642, and tit. MASTERS AND SEAMEN, and SEAMEN.
MESLIN, frauds as to, 392.
METAL, stealing, 642.
METER. See GAS.
METHEGLIN, license to sell on premises, 618.
METROPOLITAN J. P., jurisdiction of, 33.
MILITARY, their duties in riots, 67.
MILITIA. See generally, 642; deserters from, id. ; tried before J.P. 643.
MILLS for gunpowder to be licenced, 601; setting fire to mills, 643; regu-
lations as to fish, see FISHERIES; malicious injuries to, 643.
MINER, complaint of misbehaviour, 629.
MINES and collieries. See generally, 643; regulation as to labour in. id.
644; misbehaviour of labourer, 629; stealing in, 643; setting fire to, 644.
MINISTER, assaulting, 644; see CLERGYMAN.
MINUTE book to be kept by P. S. clerk, 323.
MISBEHAVIOUR in workhouse, 659.
MISDEMEANOR, arrest after, 51; admitting to bail, 95, 97, 339; com
promise of, 37; information of committal of, 328; what it is, 644.
MITIGATION of penalties, when discretionary, 165; of penalties in excise
cases, 500.
MONEY found on prisoner, 55.
MONTH, computation of, 36.
MOORINGS of ships, destroying, 602.
MORALITY, libels against, 616; as to obscene books, 616, 688.
MORAVIANS, mode of swearing, 80.
MORTAR to be provided with rockets in harbour, 602.
MOUNTAIN, burning, in game season, 574, 577; see LANDLORD AND
TENANT.
MULE, impounded, 417; fine for trespass, 420.
MUTINY, a felony, 644; see 454.
MURDER, what it is, 644.
NAMES of owners of carts to be painted, 403.
NAVIGATION, in relation to drainage, 493; not to be impeded by nets
or weirs, 516; misdemeanor to obstruct, 604; obstructing officer of pub-
lic works, 669; see PUBLIC Works, 668.
NAVY. See penalty for offences, 644; as to reserve force of seamen, and
offence, id; entering into and making false statement, id; bringing
liquor or money into prison, id.; deserter from, 644, 492; stores, embezzle-
ment of, 495; volunteers for, see APPENDIX, 644.
NEGATIVE, complainant need not prove, 126; see 156, 160.
NEGATIVING exceptions and proviso, 125, 158.
NEGLECT of duty by any person having a duty to perform under Petty
Sessions Act, 364.
NEGLIGENCE, offence of, 645.
NEST of game, &c., destroying, 578.
NETS. See FISHERIES; GAME.
NEWSPAPERS, editor responsible, 124; see generally, 645; issuing
unstamped, 645; writing in newspapers, 660; form of conviction, 645.
NEXT SESSIONS, meaning of, 193.
NIGHT, arrest for offences committed in the night, 51; or persons loitering
by night, 436, 451; taking salmon or trout by, 531; killing game, &c.,
see GAME; offence of being armed at, 702; Whiteboy offence, id.
NOLLE PROSEQUI by Attorney-General, 18.
NOTES and bills, penalty for issuing under twenty shillings, 645.
NOTICE. See APPEAL; executing warrant to arrest, 42, 52; there must
be a notice of appeal, 185; to respondent by P. S. clerk, 186, 352; by
appellant to respondent, id., 353; by party aggrieved, 187; joint notice,
187; in excise cases, 187, 503; in illicit distillation, 187; in disputed
debts, 188; service of, 189; before first day of sessions, 189; upon Sunday,
189; erroneous dismissal for not being good, 190; costs of the notice and
service, 309, 201; judicial notice of P. S. district, 202; of case to be
stated, 204; form of, id; three days notice necessary, 205; sufficiency of
service, 208; under Grand Jury Act, 264, et seq.; of action against J.P.,
293, 303; notice of electing P. S. clerk, 308; of appeal, fee on, 316; of
alteration of petty session, 322; of impounding animal, 417.
NUISANCE on roads. See ROADS. What it is, 645; obstructing road or
river, 604; committing in towns, 686, 687, 688.
NUMBER of J. P.s requisite to act, 31.
NURSERY, injuring plants in, 440; stealing plants from, 433.
NURSES, hiring without discharge, 629.
OATH to be taken by J. P., 6; who may administer to J. P., id; when
necessary on informations, 38, 329; witness to be examined upon, 77;
form of, 71; what it extends to, 77; who may administer one, 646, 77 to
81; scruple to take, 78; interpreter's oath, 81; deaf and dumb witness, 81;
to be administered on taking bail, 98; to be administered to sureties, 99,
241; relating to income tax, 245; to be taken at inquest, 258; who may
administer, 646; administering unlawful ones, 646, 647, 703; voluntary
declarations, 647.
OBSCENE books, &c., exhibition of, a misdemeanor, 616, 441; also pun-
ishable in towns by fine, 688.
OBSTRUCTING street, &c. in towns, 687; officers in execution of duty,
OFFENCE, compromise of, 36; to he described in conviction, 154; several,
in convictions, 156, 676; summarily tried, warrant to issue at once, 103,
174, 351; compounding, a misdemeanor, 475; power to compromise, 36;
prevention of, 661.
OFFENDER, before what J.P. he may be taken, 325, 326.
OFFICE, contracting for or selling, 647.
OFFICER, arrest by, without warrant, 47; of army, trespassing in pur-
suit of game, 575; personating to get money, 656; of the public, neglect
ing duty, 648; assaulting 648; indictable for misbehaviour in office, 648.
OMNIBUS, number to be carried, 401,
OPEN COURT, when, 137, 138, 327.
OPINIONS of law adviser to be kept, 323.
ORCHARD, stealing fruit, &c. from, 433; injuring trees, plants, &c. in,
440.
ORDER. See CONVICTION; distinction between and conviction, 146, 365;
not construed as strictly as convictions, 147; good in part, id.; must be
drawn up before acted on, id. ; false order may be erased, 146; if illegal
need not be signed, 147; made out of P. S. 148, 327; form of, 150, 151;
date of, 154; cannot be returned to Q. S. amended, 171; confirmed on
appeal, 203; fee on, 316; form of certificate, 380; disobeying, of J. P. a
contempt, 482; form of, in case of debts, 488; forging order, 648.
ORDER BOOK to be kept by P. S. Clerk, 130, 323; particulars of case to
be entered, 346, 146.
ORNAMENTAL designs, copyright of, 483.
OTTERS, prohibited for killing fish, 560; see FISHERIES.
OUTHOUSE, setting fire to, 604.
OVERCHARGES by excise, 506.
PALE, possession of stolen, 433; destroying or damaging, 441.
PAPERS, summons to produce, 73, 332.
PARCENERS, describing property of, 127, 365.
PARDON, effect of, 113; on first conviction, 424, 168.
PARENT, responsible for vagrant child at school, 607; desertion of child,
657.
PARK, stealing deer from, 427; shooting deer in 574; power of keepers,
576.
PARTIES to be named and described in conviction, 154, 365.
PARTNER, may have sureties to keep the peace, 234.
PARTRIDGE, destroying nest of, 578; see GAME.
PARTY processions, 70; proclamation to disperse, 649; see generally 648
to 653; offence of, 649; exhibition of flags, &c., 651, 653; when party
not armed, id; when armed, 652; mode of proceeding on summary con-
viction, 652.
PASSENGERS by coaches, cars, &c., 401, 402; number to be carried, 401;
misconduct of driver or guard, 402; by railways, 670; by ships, 641.
PAUPERS. See POOR.
PAWNBROKER. See generally for regulations as to and offences by,
653 to 655.
PAY, personating officer to obtain, 656.
PEACE. See SURETY TO KEEP THE PEACE; Peace Preservation Act, 69;
arrest for breach of, 49; power of J. P.; 4, 47.
PEAS, frauds as to, 392; see BREAD, 442.
PEER, may be bail, 99; can only be bound to the peace in Q. B., 234.
PENALTIES. See FINES; remission of, 113; application of. 165, 349,
389; must be expressly adjudicated, 162; in excise cases, 501; applica-
tion in fishery cases, 510; under game laws, 573; officers to keep account
of, 382; see generally for provisions relating to the collection of, 382 to
389.
PERJURY. See, generally, 655; J. P. to commit party guilty of, 656;
witness committing, 90; admitting to bail, 95, 339; what it is, 655;
rules to be observed by J. P. 655; when may be prosecuted, 692.
PERMITS, not producing on demand, 605.
PERSONATION, offence of, 656, 648.
PETTY SESSIONS clerk. See CLERK.
PETTY SESSIONS district, jurisdiction in, 20, 21; what cases may be
heard out of, 32, 327; to be held in court-house, 136, 326; magistrates
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