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ANIMALS,

Dead or alive, stealing, 238, 239, 252

Of base nature, and feræ naturæ, or tame, stealing, ibid.

ANIMUS,

Furandi must exist at time of taking, or no larceny, 235, 247
Revertendi, 263

ANNUITY; see SETTLEMENT BY ESTATE

ANTECEDENT, 196

In indictment, 201

APPOINTMENT OF OVERSEERS; see OVERSEERS

APPEAL (IN GENERAL),

For appeals against POOR'S RATE, ORDERS OF REMOVAL, CONVICTIONS,
&c., see those titles

What it is, 614

Came into general use, when, 949

Against summary convictions under larceny or malicious injury acts, if sum ex-
ceeds 51. or imprisonment one month, or only one justice acted, 613

Is in nature of writ of error, id.

From borough, petty or other session or judicial body to quarter sessions, 23,
628, 643

Right to appeal must be expressly given, 7, 614, 898

Time for considering whether to appeal or not, 618, 622

Its difference from certiorari, 614

Incidental power in sessions to adjourn hearing of, 640

Difference of technical precision required in orders and convictions on appeal
against either, 615, 616

Against order of removal by borough magistrates, 5, 620; see REMOVAL
Parties to, viz. appellants and respondents, 617-619

By parties grieved, and notice thereof, 617, 624

If power of appeal is given to parish officers it must be exercised by a majority,
618; see MAJORITY

Giving recognizances before appealing, 621

Against poor's rates; see POOR'S RATE, COUNTY RATE, REMOVAL, CON-

VICTIONS

Where notice of appeal or recognizance omitted, and appeal dismissed on that
account, the right of appeal is gone, 621

To what kind of session, 619

To what session in respect of place, id.

In respect of time, 620, et seq.

Meaning of term "next session," 620-628

Entering and respiting (or adjourning) 623, 640; see REMOVAL

Cannot be adjourned unless it could be duly entered, 621

Calculating time for giving notice of, and entering appeal, where it is given to
"next sessions," 623

Instances; against poor's rate, order of removal, overseers' accounts, id.
Under inclosure and other local acts, 625, et seq.

Steps preliminary to entering appeal,

When party convicted must be informed of his right to appeal, and when
not, 629

Waiver of right to such information, id.

Time of entering into recognizance in order to appeal, id.

Notice of appeal, where made requisite by statute, and when dispensed with

on entering into recognizance, 630

Sessions cannot impose by their practice a new condition of appeal not re-
quired by statute, id.

Notice of appeal, written or verbal, 630-632

Filling up printed form of, suffices for written notice, 631

APPEAL (IN GENERAL)-continued.

"Reasonable" time for giving notice of appeal, and practice of sessions as to
requiring and dispensing with, 631

Waiver of right to notice of appeal, id.

Giving notice of appeal, when does not dispense with proof of having given
recognizance, 632

Time for giving notice of appeal when fixed by statute, 632

"Ten days' notice," "ten clear days' notice," "fourteen days' notice at
least," "immediate " notice, 632.

Title, direction, and contents of written notices of appeal, 633

By and whom such notices given and served, id.

Parish officers to deliberate before appealing on behalf of parish, 618, 622.
General law as to stating grounds of appeal in notice, 633; see REMOVAL

Such statement dispensed with by respondents acting on the defective notice, 636
Service of notice of appeal, 634

Notice of appeal when two magistrates convict together, 619

Entering and respiting, 640, 641, 635

Notice of trying appeal, when necessary, after it has been respited, 635, et seq.
Adjournment, when distinguished from entry and respite, 637, 641, 642
Adjournment on sending case to judges of assize; see ADJOURNMENT
Costs, if adjourned for absence of material witness, 641, 642

Entry, trial, and determination of,

Entry of appeal by clerk of peace, 638

Calling on appeal and incidents of reading order of conviction appealed
against, 638

Proving notice of appeal, 639

Proving original order or copy of notice, 638

When sessions to decide on reasonableness of notice, and whether party misled
by it, 639, 640

Waiving proof of notice, 639

Moving to respite the hearing of appeal, id.

Adjournment for absence of material witness, costs, 642; see 468
Respondents begin by supporting the order, &c., general rule and reason,
So in case of objection of form for error on face of conviction, &c., 643
Exceptions in practice of some sessions, id.

642

Parties not confined to evidence already adduced before the magistrates be-
low, 642, 907

But cannot go out of grounds of appeal stated in notice, 907

Quashing order, conviction, &c. for non-appearance of respondents, how
effected, 643

Opening appellant's answer to the respondent's case, 644

Where sessions have jurisdiction they must not refuse to hear, or stop short
in hearing case, 652, 859

Special entry showing order of removal quashed on formal grounds, 646
Justices absolute judges of facts, and no bill of exception lies, 647, 656, 651
But they may grant a case for opinion of judges of assize, or the queen's
bench, 651, 652

Effect herein of the certiorari being taken away, 651, 652

Judgment on, must be given by the justices, and they cannot delegate their
judicial authority, 644, 646

But may cbtain opinion of third persons, 644; see 909

If they afterwards themselves determine the matter in doubt there, or at
adjournment of session, 645

Judgments of quarter sessions on appeals conclusive, though evidence impro-
perly received or rejected, 651, 647

Hardship of this law, 653

Court of Q. B. may quash both order of sessions and of justices when, 646
Or affirm the order of justices on quashing that of sessions, id.

Except on case sent up by them to queen's bench, id.

APPEAL (IN GENERAL)-continued.

Queen's bench can interfere and compel sessions to try where they have not
heard, 652, 942

So where the entry on record of quarter sessions shows that no judgment was
given; but not if a wrong judgment has been entered, 653

Or a mistake made by clerk of peace in entering quashed instead of con-
firmed, 655

What justices can vote in deciding appeal, 649

Altering their judgments during the sessions, 654

Equal division in opinion, id.

General control of Q. B. by mandamus over practice of quarter sessions, par-
ticularly in regard to their dismissing appeals, 656

Duty of sessions as to hearing appeals, id.

Costs of appeals "heard and determined" at quarter sessions, 658

Award of costs forms part of the judgment of the court, and amount must
be ascertained by the order itself, 658

Order of sessions can be enforced by indictment, but not by attachment, 659
Against poor's-rate; see PoOR'S RATE

Against stopping highways, allowing overseers' accounts, &c.; see HIGHWAYS,
OVERSEERS, &c.

Right to, cannot be ousted by certiorari, 954
Against orders of removal; see REMOVAL

APPEARANCE; see RECOGNIZANCE

Under recognizance should be recorded, or party is not discharged, 142
Default to appear at sessions according to recognizance, 229

Party has all the session in which to appear, 230

APPLES,

Stealing, 254; and see VEGETables

APPREHENDING CRIMINALS,

For treason, felony, and misdemeanour, though before indictment found, 142
Costs, of, 973; see COSTS

APPRENTICES,

Ill treating, 593; see ASSAULT, Cruelty

Jurisdiction of sessions over, in disputes with master, 594

Enlisting as soldiers; see CHEATS, &C.

Sessions may proceed in master's absence, and may order correction, id.

Settlement by apprenticeship; see SETTLEMENT OF POOR

Form of order by two justices for discharging, on complaint of the master,
868

Form of order for discharging on his own complaint, id.

Form of order for continuance of, with the representative of his deceased
master, 869; see SETTLEMENT BY APPRENTICESHIP

APPROVER, 990

ARMS,

Training to use of; see RIOT
Depôts for, in boroughs, 164

ARRAIGNMENT; see TRIAL
Three parts of, 473

1. In felony, calling prisoner to the bar, viz. into the dock, and requiring him
to hold up his hand, by name, 473, 474

2. Reading indictment, 474

3. Asking the prisoner, whether he be guilty or not, when arraigned, 478
Consequence of refusal to plead, 479

Cannot take place if prisoner is insane when arraigned, 475

Pleas on, 478

ARRAIGNMENT-continued.

Proceedings on plea of not guilty; see TRIAL
Returning prisoner money taken from him, 474

ARREST; see APPREHENDING,

On civil process in face of court of quarter sessions, 100

ARREST OF JUDGMENT, 578, 499; see JUDGMENT

ARTICLES OF THE PEACE,

Venire facias from sessions to answer, 206

How this subject may come before sessions, 594

Recognizance for keeping the peace on, may be taken by a single justice for

an indefinite time, 595

But better only to bind over to sessions, id.

Calling party bound by recognizance to appear at sessions, 597

Process for not appearing to, 229

Surety of peace may be continued to next session, though the party who craved
it do not appear, 598, 601

Or venire or bench warrant may issue, 229, 230

Exhibition of articles at sessions, id.

Resisting them, 599

Form and Requisites of, id.

Grounds of exhibiting,

Fear of bodily harm is essential, 599, 600

Threat of imprisonment, 600

Must not be demanded for malice, &c. id.

Nor merely because of existing variance, or suit with neighbour, id.

Nor for danger to servants or cattle, id.

But may be for danger to wife or child, id.

Must show fear of present or future danger, 601

May be demanded by any one, e. g. by wife against husband, 601

Against whom granted, id.

Practice of sessions as to continuing surety on, id.; see 598

Recognizance on, discharged on applicant's death or demise of crown, 601, 602
But not by release or pardon before breach, 602

Application may be originally made to sessions, though usually made in the
neighbourhood, id.

Amount of security in discretion of sessions or the magistrate, 602

Form of bench warrant to arrest on, 603; see 230

Recognizance will be certified to next sessions, 603

When recognizance may be respited on good reason for party not appearing, at
the next sessions, 604

When recognizance will be forfeited for actual violence or default to appear, id.
Estreats and proceedings on recognizance forfeited, 605
Costs of exhibiting by wife against husband, id.

Exhibiting after acquittal, 576

ARTIFICERS,

Leaving kingdom, 451

ASPORTAVIT, 237; see LARCENY

ASSAULT,

On indictment for a felony including a common assault against the person, the
jury may acquit of the felony and find the party guilty of the assault, 582,
583, 192

Cases on this enactment collected, 583, 584

1. Common assault, what, 314-316

What provocations will justify assault or even battery, 316

When justified as lawful correction, 294

ASSAULT-continued.

Indictment may include assaults on more than one person, as well as several
assaults on one person, 317

May be adopted concurrently with the civil remedy, but not with criminal
information, 317

Summary remedy before two justices, id.

Certificate of magistrate, stating grounds of dismissing complaint, or of pay-
ment of fine, how far a bar to further proceedings, 318

In aggravated cases or attempt to commit felony or indecency, or on claim
of title, magistrates must not act, id.

Indictment for a common assault, 319

For giving cantharides, 315

Summary conviction for, under 9 G. IV. c. 31, s. 27, 912

Punishment of common assault, 319

Assaults on masters or bailiffs by servants, 322

2. Assault aggravated by the nature and degree of violence used, 319
Indictment for assault and encouraging dogs to bite, 319

3. Assaults aggravated by intent to commit a higher crime, e. g. to ravish,
murder, &c. 320

Assaulting revenue or peace officer, or to prevent apprehension, or to raise

rate of wages, punishment, id.

Assaulting girl between ten and twelve years old, 322, 584

Form of indictment, id.

If two intents are laid, it is enough to prove one, 218

Assault merges in felony, if the latter is completed, 321; see MERGER
Form of indictment for assault with intent to ravish, 321; see 559

4. Assault aggravated by the party assaulted being a constable, &c., 322
Proof necessary to sustain a charge of, id.

Assaults on masters or their bailiffs, 322

Form of indictment for assaulting constable in the execution of his duty, 323
Form of indictment for assault with intent to obstruct the apprehension of
a party charged with an offence, or an arrest, id.

On deerkeeper, 385

For assaulting owner, occupier, gamekeeper, or servant, id.

Where defendant escaped and was pursued, id.

For assaulting collector of turnpike toll in the execution of his duty, 324
For assaulting and obstructing clergyman while burying dead, 390
Conviction on 9 G. IV. c. 31, s. 27, for a common assault, 912.

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL, 446; see RIOT

ASSISTANT OVERSEER, 756

ASSIZES,

Sessions may send indictments to, without certiorari, if they could try them
themselves, 161

Trials of prisoners at assizes intervening between quarter sessions, 162

AT LEAST, see Addendum to p. 632

ATTACHMENT,

Quarter sessions have no power of, 101, 588

ATTAINDER, 577, to what day relates as to land, 207

Of father does not defeat child's settlement claimed through him, 761
Pleading in bar, 991; see FORFEITURE.

ATTEMPTS; see ENDEAVour.

To commit felony or misdemeanour, indictable, 309
To assault by soliciting the person assaulted, 316
ATTESTING WITNESS, 508

ATTORNEY,

Cannot act as justice at county session where he practises, 89

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