A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments)

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Macmillan, 1883 - Criminal law - 420 pages

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Contents

Interference in Foreign Hostilities
68
Piracy with Violence
74
Serving on a Slave Ship Misdemeanor
80
Definition of Undue Influence
90
Seditious Intention defined
93
Forging Instruments of Evidence and tendering them in Proof
96
ART PAGE 148 Rescuing Murderers
100
Rescuing Revenue Prisoners
101
Escape by Persons in Custody
102
Escaping from certain Prisons
103
Transports or Persons sentenced to Penal Servitude being at Large
104
Agreement not to prosecute
105
PART IV
106
CHAPTER XVII
108
Heresies
109
Depraving the Lords Supper
110
Depraving the Book of Common Prayer
111
Clergymen refusing to use the Book of Common Prayer
112
Disturbing Public Worship
113
CHAPTER XVIII
114
Public Indecencies
115
Obscene Publications
116
Defiling Girls under Age
117
ART PAGE 174 Conspiracy to defile
118
CHAPTER XIX
120
Common Nuisance a Misdemeanor
121
Disorderly Houses
122
Common Betting Houses
123
Disorderly Places of Entertainment
124
Disorderly Inns
125
Lotteries
126
Nuisances by Offensive Trades
127
Nuisances to Bridges
128
CHAPTER XX
129
Rogues and Vagabonds
130
Incorrigible Rogues
132
PART V
133
Consent to Bodily Injury
140
Causing Death by Omissions other than those mentioned
147
When an Act is the remote Cause of Death or one of several
153
Effect and Definition of Provocation
161
CHAPTER XXV
171
CHAPTER XXVII
177
ART PAGE 249 Assaults which ought not to be punished on Summary Con viction
181
Assaults punishable with Three Months Imprisonment
182
Punishment of Common Assaults on Summary Conviction
183
Masters not providing for ApprenticesAbandoning Children under Two
196
CHAPTER XXXII
197
Things capable of being Libels
198
Publication defined
199
When a Libel is Malicious
200
Punishment for Libel
207
Theft by Bailees
229
CHAPTER XXXVI
237
Evidence as to Embezzlement
243
Assaults causing actual Bodily Harm
244
Entering Dwellinghouse with Intent
249
ART PAGE 325 Thefts punishable with Penal Servitude for Fourteen Years
254
Thefts punishable with Penal Servitude for Seven Years
256
327A Theft punishable with Two Years Imprisonment
258
Sundry Offences resembling TheftPunished by various Terms of Imprisonment c
259
CHAPTER XL
264
Definition of False Pretence
265
Of Obtaining
267
Intent to defraud
269
Obtaining Credit c by False Pretences
270
Conspiracy to defraud or extort
271
Pretending to exercise Witchcraft
272
Servants feeding Horses c against Orders
273
Taking Marks from Public Stores
274
CHAPTER XLI
275
Misappropriation under Power of Attorney
277
Clerks c assisting in procuring Advances
278
Frauds by Directors and Public Officers
279
Rule of Evidence
280
Possession
281
CHAPTER XLII
282
ART PAGE
285
Document
291
Forgeries punishable with Seven Years Penal Servitude
298
TradeMarks defined
304
177
310
CHAPTER XLVII
317
Malicious MischiefFive Years Penal Servitude
326
OFFENCES RELATING TO GAME WILD ANIMALS
333
CHAPTER XLIX
339
Breaches of Employers Duty to SeamenLeaving Seamen
345
APPENDIX OF NOTES
351
Married Women
354
PUNISHMENT OF ASSAULTS ON SUMMARY CONVICTION
404
Receiving Property unlawfully obtained 283
412

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Page 344 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority, — (1) Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property...
Page 67 - State, or by any judge or justice therein respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or State, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States...
Page 90 - Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 5. Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 15 - ... 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 350 - Ship," or tending immediately to endanger the Life or Limb of any Person belonging to or on board of such " Ship, " or who by wilful Breach of Duty, or by Neglect of Duty, or by reason of Drunkenness, refuses or omits to do any lawful Act proper and requisite to be done by him for preserving such " Ship " from immediate Loss, Destruction, or serious Damage, or for preserving any Person belonging to or on board of such " Ship" from immediate Danger to Life or Limb, shall for each such Offence be deemed...
Page 90 - Every person who directly or indirectly by himself or by any other person on his behalf makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence or restraint or inflicts or threatens...
Page 345 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 70 - If forthwith upon a proclamation of neutrality being issued by Her Majesty he gives notice to the Secretary of State that he is so building, causing to be built, or equipping such ship, and furnishes such particulars of the contract and of any matters relating to, or done, or to be done under the contract as may be required by the Secretary of State...
Page 42 - ... the king and sovereign lord of this land for the time being in his person and do him true and faithful service of allegiance...
Page 284 - Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that wherever any person taketh money or reward, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon account of helping any person...

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