A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) |
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Common terms and phrases
25 Vict accessory aforesaid amount ARTICLE assault authority bank bigamy bodily injury cause death CHAP CHAPTER chattel child clause coin commits a misdemeanor commits felony common law consent conviction thereof counterfeit Court crime criminal custody document Draft Code embezzlement employed execution fact false document false pretence forged fraudulently give grievous bodily harm guilty of felony Hale hard labour Hawk Hist homicide Ibid Illustrations indictment infliction intent to defraud jury justice killed knowing larceny liable upon conviction libel Lord Majesty malice manslaughter marriage married matter maximum punishment means ment mentioned murder obtained officer owner peace penal servitude person pirate possession prisoner procure provocation published purpose reasonable received Russ Sect sentence seven years penal shew statute steals stolen takes theft therein thing tion United Kingdom unlawful unlawfully valuable security violence 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...