adjudicating under 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 27, to inflict any penalty whatsoever, not being greater than the maximum penalty assigned for such offence by said act; and by s. 3, it is enacted that fairs and markets for the sale of linen are to be held between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock throughout the year, instead of at the times fixed by 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 27.

LOADED ARMS are defined to be, under the Offences against the Person Act, 24 & 25 Vic. c. 100, s. 19, any gun, pistol, or other arms which shall be loaded in the barrel with gunpowder or any other explosive substance, and ball, shot, slug, or other destructive material, although the attempt to discharge the same may fail from want of proper priming or other cause. Attempting to discharge with intent to murder, felony, 24 & 25 Vic. c. 100, s. 14.

LOAN SOCIETIES, Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws for the Regulation of Charitable Loan Societies in Ireland, 6 & 7 Vic. c. 91; penalties recoverable before any J. P. having jurisdiction where defendant resides or where the society's office is situate.

LOCK, on river, canal, &c., Destroying, &c., a felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, ss. 30, 31.

LODGER, stealing property let to him, felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, s. 74.

Doubts

LODGING HOUSES. See TOWNS' IMPROVEMENT. having arisen whether the 14 & 15 Vic. c. 28, and 16 & 17 Vie. c. 41, extended to Ireland, those two statutes have been declared as applicable by 23 Vic. c. 26. The expression lodging-house means a house in which lodgers are housed for a less period than one week at a time, at an amount not exceeding 4d. per head per night; 17 & 18 Vic. c. 103, s. 1. It shall not be lawful to keep or use as a lodging-house any house within any town the population of which exceeds 3,000, unless the house is registered as a lodging-house; s. 45. By 10 & 11 Vic. c. 34, s. 117, the commissioners are to keep a register of lodging-house keepers, and make rules for promoting cleanliness and ventilation; penalty on neglect of lodging-house keeper not complying with the provisions of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 10 & 11 Vic. c. 34, not exceeding 40s. for each offence; s. 118.

LOOM, Injuring, used in any manufacture, felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 14.

See SUNDAY, BREACH OF.

LORD'S DAY. LUNATICS. See ante p. 289, for mode to be adopted on the apprehension of a dangerous lunatic. By 5 & 6 Vic. c. 123, s. 3, no person to keep a house for the reception of two or more insane persons, unless the same be licensed, and J. P. at quarter sessions have authority to grant licence, under the hand and seal

of three or more J. P.s; ss. 3 to 5. This act has been continued by 24 & 25 Vic. c. 57, to the end of the sessions of 1865.

By 2 & 3 Vic. c. 51, s. 4, if any army pensioner shall become insane, one J. P. of the place, upon proof of such insanity, shall certify the same to the commissioner of Chelsea Hospital; s. 5. By 16 & 17 Vic. c. 96, if any superintendent officer, nurse, &c. abuse, or ill-treat, or neglect any patient, he is liable to forfeit for such offence, before two J. P.s, any sum not exceeding £20; s. 9. Under the 9 & 10 Vic. c. 115, s. 3, any person not being a criminal lunatic within the 8 & 9 Vic. c. 107, may be discharged from any district lunatic asylum without the order of the Lord Lieutenant, as in the case of other lunatic poor, in case it shall be duly certified by medical certificate that such person has become of sound mind, or has ceased to be, or is not a dangerous lunatic or dangerous idiot.

MACHINE for agricultural purposes, or used in any manufactory, &c., damaging, a felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 15. Roitously destroying same, also a felony; id. s. 11.

MAINTENANCE. See POOR.

MALICIOUS INJURIES. See the titles ARSON, BUILDING, SHIP, and other subjects of malicious injuries. For mode of obtaining compensation before grand jury, see ante, p. 265, et seq. See Malicious Injuries to Property Act, 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, and so much of same as gives summary jurisdiction to magistrates, ante, p. 439; 16 & 17 Vic. c. 38, intituled an act to extend the remedies for the compensation of malicious injuries to property in Ireland. Any person who shall spoil or injure any species of property not specially provided for, when the injury exceeds the sum of £5, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 51.

MALT HOUSE, Setting fire to, felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 3. Rioters demolishing, like offence; id. s. 11.

MANAGER of company fraudulently converting property, or keeping fraudulent accounts, or destroying books, a misdemeanor; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, ss. 81, 82, 83.

MAN-TRAPS. Setting man-traps, spring-guns, &c. a misdemeanor; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 100, s. 31.

MANUFACTORY. Rioters demolishing building or engines therein, a felony ; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 11. Injuring building, a misdemeanor; id. s. 12. Setting fire to, whether any person be therein or not, a felony; id. ss. 2, 3.

MANUFACTURE. Stealing things in process of, a felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, s. 62. Damaging goods in process of, a felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 14.

MAP. Stealing any map relating to land, a felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, ss. 1, 28.

MARINE MUTINY. Regulations of Marine Mutiny Act, [which is annual], enforced by summary proceeding before justices by 24 Vic. c. 8, s. 51, et seq. MARKET AND FAIRS. See as to offence of obstructing corn, &c. going to or from, ante, p. 448. See INDEX. See as to disputes in, ante, p. 413, also Petty Sessions Act, ante, p. 327, for jurisdiction to hear offence out of petty sessions. See also Market Jurors Act; 27 Geo. III. c. 46; and 28 Geo. III. c. 42. By 27 Geo. III. the market jurors are empowered to inspect bakers' shops, &c. and weights and measures, and if bread fraudulent, or weights, &c. deficient, may seize and carry to J. P.; ss. 1 & 2. It has been decided that when a complaint has been made to a single magistrate, that a party has been guilty of an offence amounting to a fraud in or relating to the sale of the goods, the magistrate has jurisdiction to proceed to hear and determine the case out of petty sessions; and in making any order in such a case, it is sufficient to follow the form of order given in the Petty Sessions Act, ante, p. 150; see R. v. Mayor of Clonmel, 4 Ir. J. N. S. 151; see also ante, tit. BREAD AND FLOUR, for the Bakers' Act, 1 & 2 Vic. c. 29. It was recently decided in the Queen's Bench, in Ireland, Michaelmas Term, 1859, in Mahony v. Wright, that the provisions of the Market Jurors' Act were not repealed by the Bread Act, 1 & 2 Vic. c. 28, and that the functions of the market jurors still remained to be performed, although the penalties were to be inflicted under the latter statute. See 10 Vic. c. 14, for offence of selling unwholesome meat; also 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 38, regulating booths and tents in fairs; by s. 3 they are not to be open for sale of wine or beer at any hour between 6 o'clock, p.m., and 9 o'clock, a.m., in summer, and 3 o'clock, p.m., and 9 o'clock, a.m., in winter, under penalty of £2; see 2 & 3 Vic. c. 76, s. 6, for power to sell beer, &c. at fairs. See 4 Anne, c. 8, by which cattle unsold may be carried off without paying toll, and a penalty for demanding it is imposed; ss. 3 & 4.

MARRIAGE. Any degraded clergyman, or any layman celebrating any marriage between two reputed Protestants, or between a reputed Protestant and a Papist, felony, by 12 Geo. I. c. 3, s. 1; 5 Vic. sess. 2, c. 28, ss. 1 & 17. Any person wilfully solemnizing any marriage (unless by special licence in any other place than a church or chapel, &c.) felony, by 7 & 8 Vic. c. 81, s. 45. This section excepts such marriages as might be lawfully celebrated by a Roman Catholic priest, and marriages between Quakers according to the usage of Quakers, or between Jews. But a marriage celebrated by a Roman Catholic priest between two Protestants renders the person celebrating it liable to be indicted for felony under this act, because it is not a marriage which could be lawfully celebrated at the time of passing this

act, all such marriages being rendered null and void by 19 Geo. II. c. 13. Knowingly solemnizing a marriage in any registered building or office, in the absence of the registrar, or otherwise contrary to the provisions of this act, felony, by 7 & 8 Vic. c. 81, s. 45. Knowingly granting any marriage licence, or publishing any marriage bans, after the issue of such licence or publication of such bans shall have been lawfully forbidden by some person authorized so to do, felony, by 7 & 8 Vic. c. 81, s. 46. Registrar of, forging, altering, &c. felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 98, s. 36. Forging certificate of marriage, like offence; id. s. 35.

MASTER AND SERVANT, &c. See INDEX; APPRENTICE; COMBINATION. See also 14 & 15 Vic. c. 92, s. 16, ante p. 409.

By 8 & 9 Vic. c. 128, reciting 5 Geo. IV. c. 96, it is provided that manufacturer is to deliver, with warp, a ticket of work, which is to be evidence in cases of dispute; and it provides for the recovery of wages and sums due for work, together with costs for loss of time; s. 7. By 8 & 9 Vic. c. 77, similar provisions as in the last mentioned act, and also reciting 5 Geo. IV. c. 96. 1 Vic. c. 67, reciting 5 Geo. IV. c. 96, extends the period for workmen making complaints for other causes than bad materials, to 14 days; s. 1. By 5 Geo. IV. c. 96, disagreements respecting payments for work, compensation to workmen for purchase of implements, disputes respecting length or quality; or in the cotton manufacture, or arising out of the particular trades or contracts relating thereto, which cannot be mutually adjusted, may be settled as in sec. 3 of this act; s. 2. Complaints by workmen as to bad materials shall be made in three weeks of receiving the same, and as to any other cause in six days after; ib. Nothing in act to authorize any J. P. to establish a rate of wages, unless with the mutual consent of workman and master ; ib. A J. P. may be appointed referee by mutual consent; or on complaint of either party may appoint four or six to be arbitrators, half masters, half workmen of place; of the former of whom the master, and of the latter the workman shall choose one, to finally determine; s. 3. Appointment of other referees, where those appointed refuse or delay to accept the reference, or accepting do not act therein; s. 4. Meeting of referees, notice of which shall be given and the form of J. P.'s order certifying nomination of referees; place for the meeting of the referees, which is to be near the place where the works are carried on, and for the attendance of the parties, see ss. 5, 6, 7. The arbitrators and referees shall meet where place fixed, and by examination of thing in dispute, and witnesses, whom they may swear, proceed to determine matter in dispute, and their award shall be final; s. 8. The arbitrators and referees may issue summonses for the attendance of witnesses, and if refractory, a J. P. may upon

proof thereof commit such person to prison for not exceeding two calendar months, nor less than seven days. The form of commitment to be as in the schedule to this act; ss. 9 & 27. In case arbitrators and referees cannot agree, or shall not make their award within the three days of their appointment, they are to go before the J. P. by whom they were appointed, or in his absence or indisposition, before some other, who shall investigate the case and determine the same; s. 10. In case either arbitrator or referee neglects or refuses to appear before J. P., he may determine the matter upon the statement of those who shall come before him; s. 11. No magistrate, being also a master manufacturer or agent, shall act in matters under this act; s. 12. Disputes may be adjusted by any other mode of arbitration upon which the parties may agree, and the same proceedings used to enforce award; s. 13. Partners, agents, and servants of masters to be considered as principals, and they shall obey the award and be in all respects liable as if the proceedings were against the principal; s. 14. Masters not resident on the spot may depute another person to act for them; and where the master becomes bankrupt after proceedings commenced, his trustee or assignee is liable; but the money awarded is recoverable out of the master's, not out of the assignee's estate; ss. 15, 16. Where the complainant is a married woman, the proceedings are to be in the name of the husband; if infant, of the parent; or if both dead, of any of kin; or if apprentice, of any surety in indenture; or if none such, of any person nominated; s. 17. Ticket of particulars shall be given out with the work, to be evidence in all cases, and duplicates of such tickets to be kept by master; ss. 18, 19. Manufacturer receiving any article without objection within twenty-four hours cannot make one on account of work received; s. 21. The performance of the award may be enforced by distress, and failing that, the party shall be imprisoned for not exceeding three months; s. 24. Where the execution of the warrant of distress may be ruinous to the family, the J. P. may withhold the same, and commit the defaulter to prison for not exceeding three months; s. 25. On payment of the sum awarded, with costs and charges, the party shall be discharged from prison; s. 26. List of fees on proceedings; s. 30. The costs and expenses to be settled by the arbitrators or J. P.; and masters not to be allowed costs unless workman's proceedings are vexatious; s. 31. By 2 Geo. I. c. 17, servants wasting their master's goods, or departing their service without their consent within the time they had obliged themselves to serve, upon complaint the J. P. may issue warrant for bringing servants before him, and on proof on oath of such offence, to commit them for period not exceeding ten days; s. 2. No servant to hire into another