The Magisterial Synopsis: A Practical Guide for Magistrates, Their Clerks, Attornies and Constables, in All Matters Out of Quarter Sessions; Summary Convictions and Indictable Offences, with Their Penalties, Punishments, Procedures, &c., Being Tabularly Arranged

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Butterworths, 1861 - Justices of the peace - 1129 pages

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Page 70 - ... chattel, money, or valuable security, which shall be delivered to or received or taken into possession by him for or in the name or on the account of his master or employer...
Page 80 - Whosoever, being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular, with intent to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder, or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or with intent to induce any person to become a shareholder or partner therein, or to entrust or advance any property...
Page 60 - Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing, with intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy such person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being .... convicted thereof sha1!
Page 44 - ... whosoever with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman whether she be or be not with child shall unlawfully administer to her or cause to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing or shall unlawfully use any iuatruineut or other means whatsoever...
Page 90 - Whosoever shall steal, or shall cut, break, root up or otherwise destroy or damage with intent to steal, the whole or any part of any tree, sapling or shrub, or any underwood wheresoever the same...
Page 49 - Act in respect of any act done by him, if he shall at any time previously to his being indicted for...
Page 31 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any case where the party trespassing acted under a fair and reasonable supposition that he had a right to do the act complained of, nor to any trespass, not being wilful and malicious, committed in hunting, fishing, or in the pursuit of game ; but that every such trespass shall be punishable in the same manner as before the passing of this act.
Page 30 - ... unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, bark, root up, or otherwise destroy or damage the whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any underwood, respectively growing...
Page 114 - That if any Persons, riotously and tumultuously assembled together to the Disturbance of the Public Peace...
Page 64 - Process, arrest any Clergyman or other Minister who is engaged in, or to the Knowledge of the Offender is about to engage in, any of the Rites or Duties in this Section aforesaid, or who to the Knowledge of the Offender shall be going to perform the same or returning from the Performance thereof...

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