Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada Relating to Criminal Law and to Procedure in Criminal Cases: Passed in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Sessions of the 1st Parliament; in the 1st Session of the 2nd Parliament and the 1st Session of the 3rd Parliament of Canada [1867-1874]

Front Cover
B. Chamberlin, 1875 - Criminal law - 462 pages

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page xv - ... revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
Page 55 - ... provided that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 55 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 149 - 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 iv - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character...
Page xi - Where, in pursuance of any arrangement with a foreign State, any person accused or convicted of any crime which, if committed in England, would be one of the crimes described in the first schedule to this Act is surrendered by that foreign State, such person shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to such foreign State, be triable or tried for any offence committed prior to the surrender in any part of Her Majesty's dominions other than such of the said crimes as...
Page vii - In the case of a fugitive criminal accused of an extradition crime, if the foreign warrant authorising the arrest of such criminal is duly authenticated, and such evidence is produced as (subject to the provisions of this Act) would, according to the law of England, justify the committal for trial of the prisoner if the crime of which he is accused had been committed in England, the police magistrate shall commit him to prison, but otherwise shall order him to be discharged.
Page iv - ... shall not be surrendered to a foreign state unless provision is made by the law of that state, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign state for any offence committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded...
Page 264 - County of , at aforesaid, and there deliver him to the said keeper thereof, together with this precept: And I do hereby command you, the said keeper...
Page 155 - ... in any such public advertisement to return to any pawnbroker or other person who may have bought or advanced money by way of loan...

Bibliographic information