A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) |
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... grounds for believing that he is getting his livelihood by dishonest means ; or if , 134 & 35 Vict . c . 112 , s . 8 , and s . 20 , which defines the word " crime " em- ployed in s . 8 . 2 Viz . , 1. Uttering false or counterfeit coin ...
... grounds for believing that he is getting his livelihood by dishonest means ; or if , 134 & 35 Vict . c . 112 , s . 8 , and s . 20 , which defines the word " crime " em- ployed in s . 8 . 2 Viz . , 1. Uttering false or counterfeit coin ...
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... ground , or nursery ground , or in any building , or erection in any garden , orchard , pleasure- ground , or nursery - ground , without being able to account to the satisfaction of the Court before whom he is brought for his being ...
... ground , or nursery ground , or in any building , or erection in any garden , orchard , pleasure- ground , or nursery - ground , without being able to account to the satisfaction of the Court before whom he is brought for his being ...
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... grounds believed to exist when he did the act alleged to be an offence , provided that , when an offence is so defined by statute that the act of the offender is not a crime unless some indepen- dent fact co - exists with it , the Court ...
... grounds believed to exist when he did the act alleged to be an offence , provided that , when an offence is so defined by statute that the act of the offender is not a crime unless some indepen- dent fact co - exists with it , the Court ...
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... grounds , he supposes a burglar to be , kills a person who is not a burglar . A is in the same situation as if he had killed a burglar . ( 3. ) A abducts B , a girl under fifteen years of age , from her father's house , believing in ...
... grounds , he supposes a burglar to be , kills a person who is not a burglar . A is in the same situation as if he had killed a burglar . ( 3. ) A abducts B , a girl under fifteen years of age , from her father's house , believing in ...
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... grounds believing B to have committed murder and not being able otherwise to arrest him shoots at him and kills him . A is justified . If A had been a private person his act would have been manslaughter at least . ( 7. ) 2B , pretending ...
... grounds believing B to have committed murder and not being able otherwise to arrest him shoots at him and kills him . A is justified . If A had been a private person his act would have been manslaughter at least . ( 7. ) 2B , pretending ...
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Common terms and phrases
25 Vict 34 Vict aforesaid amount ARTICLE assault authority bank note Bank of England Bank of Ireland belonging bill of exchange bodily harm CHAPTER chattel clause coin commits a misdemeanor commits felony common law conviction thereof counterfeit Court crime criminal damage destroys Draft Code duty dwelling-house embezzlement fact false document false pretence forged forgery fraudulently gold or silver grievous bodily harm guilty Hale hard labour homicide husband Ibid Illustrations imprisonment and hard indictment inflicted injury instrument intent to defraud justice killed knowing knowingly larceny liable upon conviction libel Majesty's malice manslaughter matter maximum punishment means ment mentioned murder obtained offences defined officer owner penal servitude person prisoner purpose reasonable receives Russ Sect seven years penal shew ship or vessel statute steals stolen takes theft therein trade-mark United Kingdom unlawful unlawfully utters valuable security warrant wilfully words
Popular passages
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...