A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information: with a Copious Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Presentments, and Every Description of Practical Forms, with Comprehensive Notes Upon Each Offence, the Process, Indictment, Plea, Defence, Evidence, Trial, Verdict, Judgment, and Punishment, Volume 2S. Brooke, 1826 - Criminal law |
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... Clergy is abrogated as to the future , by the 6th Section of Cap . 28 , but a reference to former Statutes on that subject is still needful , from the limitation of Capital Punishments dependant on those ancient enactments which al ...
... Clergy is abrogated as to the future , by the 6th Section of Cap . 28 , but a reference to former Statutes on that subject is still needful , from the limitation of Capital Punishments dependant on those ancient enactments which al ...
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... Clergy , or creating Felonies without Benefit of Clergy , have omitted to take away the Benefit of Clergy under certain Circumstances consequent upon the Indictment of the Offender : And whereas a partial Remedy for such Defects was ...
... Clergy , or creating Felonies without Benefit of Clergy , have omitted to take away the Benefit of Clergy under certain Circumstances consequent upon the Indictment of the Offender : And whereas a partial Remedy for such Defects was ...
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... Clergy by any Statute , the Indictment or Information shall after Verdict be held sufficient to warrant the Punishment prescribed by the Statute if it describe the Offence in the Words of the Statute . Courts may order Payment of the ...
... Clergy by any Statute , the Indictment or Information shall after Verdict be held sufficient to warrant the Punishment prescribed by the Statute if it describe the Offence in the Words of the Statute . Courts may order Payment of the ...
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... CLERGY , AND TO LARCENY AND OTHER OFFENCES CONNECTED THEREWITH , AND TO MALICIOUS INJURIES TO PROPERTY , AND TO REMEDIES AGAINST THE HUNDRED . [ Passed 21st June , 1827. ] WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal various Statutes now in force ...
... CLERGY , AND TO LARCENY AND OTHER OFFENCES CONNECTED THEREWITH , AND TO MALICIOUS INJURIES TO PROPERTY , AND TO REMEDIES AGAINST THE HUNDRED . [ Passed 21st June , 1827. ] WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal various Statutes now in force ...
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... Clergy , and to make better Provision for the Punishment of Offenders in certain Cases : Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty , by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons ...
... Clergy , and to make better Provision for the Punishment of Offenders in certain Cases : Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty , by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons ...
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Page xlvii - ... purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Court or other Officer having the custody of the Records of the Court where the offender was first convicted, or by the Deputy of such Clerk or Officer...
Page 7 - ... the justice shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the convicting justice (unless where otherwise specially directed) to commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
Page 7 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of felony ; and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Page 9 - ... and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years...
Page 8 - Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years nor less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding Three Years...
Page liii - Court, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of Seven Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award...
Page lxiv - Act passed or to be passed, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 11 - ... may commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, as the justice shall think fit, for any term not exceeding two calendar months, unless such sum and costs be sooner paid...
Page lxix - ' for Costs shall be paid to [the Complainant^. Given '• under my Hand and Seal, the Day and Year first above mentioned.