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A.

ABANDONING,
a child, 57

ABDUCTION,

of an heiress, &c., against her will from motives of lucre, 78
fraudulent, of an heiress, &c., under age against the will of
her father, &c., 78

offender incapable of taking any of her property, 78

property of heiress to be settled by Court of Chancery, 78
forcible, of any woman with intent to marry, &c.,

of a girl under sixteen years of age, 80
of a child under fourteen years of age, 80

ABETTORS,

in misdemeanors, 27, 88, 183, 253, 314
in offences punishable summarily, 183, 256
ABOMINABLE CRIME,

punishment, 85

attempt to commit, 85

letter threatening to accuse of, 136

79

accusing of, with intent to extort property, 137
inducing persons to execute deeds, &c., by threat of, 138

ABORTION,

administering drugs, &c., or using instruments to procure, 82
procuring drugs or instruments to be so used, 83

immaterial whether woman be or be not with child, 82

ABROAD,

conspiracy or solicitation to murder any one abroad, 34
murder or manslaughter abroad is triable wherever the offender
is apprehended or in custody, 41

ABSENCE,

where death or wound is abroad, 44

of husband or wife for seven years, when a defence in bigamy,
81

ACCEPTANCE OF A BILL OF EXCHANGE,

forging, 283

ACCESSORY,

act relating to, 18-28

before the fact, may be dealt with in all respects as a prin-
cipal, 18

observations on this provision, 18-22

or may be indicted as an accessory or as a substantive felon, 22
after the fact, may be indicted as such or as a substantive
felon, 23

punishment of, 23

accessories may be prosecuted after the principal has been
convicted but not attainted, 24

separate accessories may be tried together in absence of the
principal, 25

where a felony is wholly committed in England or Ireland any
accessory to it may be tried in any place where he became
accessory, or where the principal may be tried, 25

in every other case he may be tried where he is apprehended
or in custody, 25

observations on this provision, 26

accessories within the jurisdiction of the admiralty guilty of
felony, 27

form of indictment in such cases, 27

in murder and other offences against the person, punishment
of, 88

in offences against the Larceny Act, 183

Malicious Injuries Act, 252
Coin Act, 342

Forgery Act, 314

ACCOUNTABLE RECEIPT,

forging, &c., 284

ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL,
forging signature of, 293

ACCUSING,

of crimes with intent to extort property, 137
letter accusing of crimes, 136

ACKNOWLEDGING,

recognisance, bail, cognovit, judgment, deed, or other instru-
ment in the name of another without authority, 293

ACQUITTANCE FOR MONEY, &c.,

forging, &c., 284

exchequer stealing, &c., 99, 122

ACTION,

proceedings in, for anything done under Larceny Act, 196

Malicious Injuries Act, 260

Coin Act, 340

ADJOURNMENT,

committal during, form of, 380

ADMINISTERING, &c.,

poison, &c., with intent to murder, 45

with intent to procure abortion, 82

so as to endanger life or inflict bodily harm, 54
with intent to injure or aggrieve, 55

in what cases the jury may convict of the last-mentioned
offence, 55

attempting to administer poison, &c., with intent to murder, 47
administering, &c., chloroform, laudanum, &c., with intent
to commit any offence, 54

ADMIRALTY,

offences against these Acts committed within the jurisdiction
of, are of the same nature and liable to the same punish-
ment as if committed in England or Ireland, 89

such offences may be tried where the offender is apprehended
or in custody, 89

form of indictment for such offences, 89

observations on these provisions, 89

in the Offences against the Person Act, 89
Larceny Act, 198

Malicious Injuries Act, 261
Coin Act, 342

Forgery Act, 314

Accessories Act, 27

AFFIDAVIT,

what it includes, 2

AGENT,

embezzling money, &c., intrusted to him with a written direc-
tion, 166

or goods, &c., power of attorney to transfer stock, &c.,
intrusted to him for safe custody, &c., 166

fraudulently selling, &c., property intrusted to him for safe
custody, 168

obtaining advances on the property of his principal without
authority, &c., 169

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"ANY OTHER,"

how used in the Acts, 3

APPEAL,

against summary convictions under Larceny Act, 193

under Malicious Injuries Act, 258

in what cases, on what terms, as to notice, &c., and proceed-
ings thereon, 193, 258

APPEARANCE,

how compelled in summary cases against the Larceny Act, 190
Malicious Injuries Act, 255

APPREHENSION,

without warrant of persons at night suspected of felony, 88,
189

found committing offences against the Larceny Act,
187

Malicious Injuries Act, 255

uttering base coin, 324

offering to sell, &c., property suspected to have been
stolen, &c., 187

with a warrant, how warrant is to be obtained, 190

APPRENTICE,

neglecting to provide necessary food for, 56

maliciously causing bodily harm whereby life or health is
endangered, 56

AQUEDUCT,

injuring, 233

ARMS,

loaded, what are to be deemed to be, 52

ARREST. See APPREHENSION.

of clergyman or other minister engaged in or about to engage
in the performance of his duties, 63

ARSON,

or going to perform or returning from the performance
thereof, 63

setting fire to church, chapel, meeting-house, or other place
of divine worship, 209

dwelling-house, any person being therein, 210
house, stable, coach-house, out-house, warehouse,
office, shop, mill, malt-house, barn, storehouse,
granary, hovel, shed, fold, farm building, building
or erection used in farming land, or carrying on any
trade or manufacture, 210
station or other building belonging to any railway,
port, dock, harbour, canal, or navigation, 211
building belonging to the Queen, or to any county,

ARSON-continued.

ART,

&c., or place, or to any university, &c., inn of
court, or dedicated to public use or maintained by
public subscription, 211

any other building, 212

goods in any building, 213

crop of hay, grass, corn, grain, pulse, &c., 221
wood, coppice, or plantation of trees, 221
heath, gorse, furze, or fern, 221

stack of corn, grain, pulse, tares, hay, straw, haulm,
stubble, &c., furze, gorse, heath, fern, turf, peat,
coals, charcoal, wood or bark, or steer of wood or
bark, 222

mine of coal, cannel coal, or anthracite, 228
ship or vessel, 243

with intent to prejudice owner or underwriter,

243

attempting to set fire to buildings, 214

crops of corn, &c., 222

stacks of steers, &c., 222

mines, 229

ships, 244

works of, destroying or damaging, 237

ASSAULTS,

common, summary conviction of, 67

commitment to hard labour for non-payment of fine, observa-
tions on, 68

aggravated, on females and children under fourteen years of
age, 68

Introduction, xxxii.

certificate of dismissal, &c., 69

such certificate or conviction a bar to other proceedings, 71
observations on the cases decided on the former clause, 71
summary provisions not to apply to attempts to commit
felony, &c., &c., 75

on clergymen and other ministers, 63

on magistrates preserving wreck, 64

with intent to commit felony, 65

resist apprehension or detainer, 65

on peace officers or their assistants, 65

with intent to obstruct the sale or passage of grain, flour, &c.,
65

on seamen, keelmen, or casters, 66

in pursuance of any conspiracy to raise the rate of wages, or
respecting any trade or manufacture, 67

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