The Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts of the 24 & 25 Vict. with Notes, Observations, and Forms for Summary Proceedings

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V. & R. Stevens, Sons, and Haynes (etc.), 1862 - 453 pages

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Page 255 - ... and give this act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 21 - ... may be indicted and convicted either as an .accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 1 - ... shall be understood to include several matters as well as one matter, and several persons as well as one person, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Page 63 - Case he shall be released from all further or other Proceedings, Civil or Criminal, for the same Cause.
Page 109 - ... at the discretion of the justice either be committed to the common gaol, or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding...
Page 338 - Majesty's superior Courts of Record ; and no Warrant of Commitment shall be held void by reason of any Defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the Party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid Conviction to sustain the same.
Page 215 - Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, — or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
Page 166 - Whosoever, being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular...
Page 254 - ... information against any person for a subsequent offence, a copy of such conviction, certified by the proper officer of the court, or proved to be a true copy, shall be sufficient evidence to prove a conviction for the former offence, and the conviction shall be presumed to have been unappealed against, until the contrary be shewn.
Page 114 - Offender shall be deemed guilty of Felony, of the same Nature, and in the same Degree, and punishable in the same Manner as if he had stolen any Chattel of like Value with the Share, Interest, or Deposit to which the Security so stolen may relate, or with the Money due on the Security so stolen or secured thereby and remaining unsatisfied, or with the Value of the Goods or other valuable Thing mentioned in...

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