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PROPERTY, offences against-continued.

LARCENY continued.

larcenies of other things, 251

killing animals with intent, 251

valuable securities, 252

wills, 253

post letters, &c., 253

valuable securities by officers of bank, 254

horses, &c., 254

stealing from the person, 254

stealing in dwelling-house, 254

goods in course of manufacture, 255

in vessels, &c., 255

on wharfs, &c., 255

of ships in distress, 255

embezzlement by clerk or servant, 255

by persons in employ of Her Majesty, 255
chattels and fixtures in lodgings, 256

title to lands, 256

judicial documents, 257

lead, &c., from buildings, 257

fixed metal, 257

trees and shrubs, 257

oysters, 258

offences resembling theft, 259

dog stealing, 259

bird stealing, 259

domestic animals, 259

wounding pigeons, 260

dredging for oysters, 260

stealing shrubs value 1s., 260

stealing fences, 261

stealing vegetable produce, &c., 261

goods belonging to ships in distress, 262

MALICIOUS INJURIES, 317

burning ships of war, &c., 317

arson, 318-323

by explosion of gunpowder, 319, 322, 326
damaging manufactured goods, 319, 323
machinery, 319, 323, 324

sea banks, &c., 319, 324
docks, canals, &c., 319, 325

bridges, &c., 320

railways, &c., 320, 331

ships, 320, 322, 325

mines, &c., 323

fish ponds, &c., 325

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breaches of employer's duty to seamen, 345
leaving seamen behind, 346

sending unseaworthy ship to sea, 347

breach of seamen's duty to employer, 347
breach of seamen's duty to each other, 349

PROVOCATION, 161: See PERSON (Murder).

PUBLIC AUTHORITY, Offences against,

BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION, 88

judicial corruption, 88

official corruption, 83

embracery, 88

of voters, 89

undue influence, 90

punishment of bribery at elections, 91

ESCAPE, 99

permitting voluntary, 99

negligent, 99

Rescue, 99

felonious, 100

of murderers, 100

prisoners of war, 100

revenue prisoners, 101

helping to escape from prison, 101
escaping from custody, 102
Prison-breach, 102

escaping from certain prisons, 103
being at large after sentence, 104
MISLEADING JUSTICE,

Perjury, 93

definition of, 93

subornation of, 95
punishment of, 95

false swearing, 95

Forging instruments of evidence, 96

tendering them in evidence, 96

officers giving false certificates, 97
Maintenance, 97

dissuading witnesses, 98

MISPRISION of treason, 104

of felony, 104

agreement not to prosecute, 105

compounding penal actions, 105

OFFENCES BY OFFICERS,

"public officer" defined, 82

extortion and oppression by public officers, 82

illegally imprisoning subjects beyond the seas, 84

frauds and breaches of trust by officers, 84

neglect of duty, 85

refusal to serve an office, 85

disobedience to lawful orders, 87

to statutes, 87

to orders, 87

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blasphemy, 108

heresies, 108

denying truth of Christianity, 109

depraving the Lord's Supper, 110

the Book of Common Prayer, 111

clergymen refusing to use the Book of Common Prayer, 112
disturbing public worship, 113

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PUBLIC MISCHIEF-continued.

VAGRANCY-Continued.

incorrigible rogues, 132
punishment of, 132

PUBLIC ORDER,

OFFENCES AGAINST IN GENERAL,

HIGH TREASON, 40

by imagining the Queen's death, 40
by levying war, 41

by adhering to the Queen's enemies, 42

by adherence to a de facto king, 42

by killing the king's wife or son, 42
by words, 42

by violating the king's wife, &c., 43
by killing judges, &c., 43
punishment for high treason, 44
all engaged are principals, 44

TREASONABLE FELONIES, 44

intending to depose the Queen, &c., 45

intending to levy war, 45

to stir any foreigner to invade, 45

inciting to mutiny, &c., 45

TREASONABLE MISDEMEANORS, 46

assaulting or attempting to assault the Queen, 46

contempts against the Queen, 47

assisting at marriage of member of Royal Family, 47

EXTERNAL PUBLIC ORDER, 67

(1) Against Foreign Nations, 67

violation of ambassadors' privileges, 67

arrest of ambassadors, 67

punishment, 67

libels on foreign powers, 68

interference in foreign hostilities, 68

foreign enlistment, 69

forfeiture of ships, 70

increasing force of foreign ships, 71

enlistment by misrepresentation, 71
presumption of knowledge, 72

(2) Against Person on High Seas, 73

piracy, 73

with violence, 74

foreign commissions, 74

adhering to enemies on sea, 74

boarding ships, &c., 75

favouring pirates, 75

trading or conspiring with pirates, 76

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