INDEX. A. ABANDONING, ABDUCTION, of an heiress, &c., against her will from motives of lucre, 78 offender incapable of taking any of her property, 78 property of heiress to be settled by Court of Chancery, 78 of a girl under sixteen years of age, 80 ABETTORS, in misdemeanors, 27, 88, 183, 253, 314 punishment, 85 attempt to commit, 85 letter threatening to accuse of, 136 79 accusing of, with intent to extort property, 137 ABORTION, administering drugs, &c., or using instruments to procure, 82 immaterial whether woman be or be not with child, 82 ABROAD, conspiracy or solicitation to murder any one abroad, 34 ABSENCE, where death or wound is abroad, 44 of husband or wife for seven years, when a defence in bigamy, 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- observations on this provision, 18-22 or may be indicted as an accessory or as a substantive felon, 22 punishment of, 23 accessories may be prosecuted after the principal has been separate accessories may be tried together in absence of the where a felony is wholly committed in England or Ireland any in every other case he may be tried where he is apprehended observations on this provision, 26 accessories within the jurisdiction of the admiralty guilty of form of indictment in such cases, 27 in murder and other offences against the person, punishment in offences against the Larceny Act, 183 Malicious Injuries Act, 252 Forgery Act, 314 ACCOUNTABLE RECEIPT, forging, &c., 284 ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, ACCUSING, of crimes with intent to extort property, 137 ACKNOWLEDGING, recognisance, bail, cognovit, judgment, deed, or other instru- 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 in what cases the jury may convict of the last-mentioned attempting to administer poison, &c., with intent to murder, 47 ADMIRALTY, offences against these Acts committed within the jurisdiction such offences may be tried where the offender is apprehended form of indictment for such offences, 89 observations on these provisions, 89 in the Offences against the Person Act, 89 Malicious Injuries Act, 261 Forgery Act, 314 Accessories Act, 27 AFFIDAVIT, what it includes, 2 AGENT, embezzling money, &c., intrusted to him with a written direc- or goods, &c., power of attorney to transfer stock, &c., fraudulently selling, &c., property intrusted to him for safe obtaining advances on the property of his principal without "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- APPEARANCE, how compelled in summary cases against the Larceny Act, 190 APPREHENSION, without warrant of persons at night suspected of felony, 88, found committing offences against the Larceny Act, Malicious Injuries Act, 255 uttering base coin, 324 offering to sell, &c., property suspected to have been 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 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 ARSON, or going to perform or returning from the performance setting fire to church, chapel, meeting-house, or other place dwelling-house, any person being therein, 210 ARSON-continued. ART, &c., or place, or to any university, &c., inn of any other building, 212 goods in any building, 213 crop of hay, grass, corn, grain, pulse, &c., 221 stack of corn, grain, pulse, tares, hay, straw, haulm, mine of coal, cannel coal, or anthracite, 228 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- aggravated, on females and children under fourteen years of Introduction, xxxii. certificate of dismissal, &c., 69 such certificate or conviction a bar to other proceedings, 71 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., on seamen, keelmen, or casters, 66 in pursuance of any conspiracy to raise the rate of wages, or T |