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ARSON-continued.

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&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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ASSAULTS-continued.

punishment, on conviction on an indictment, of common
assault, 76

assault occasioning actual bodily harm, 76

costs may be ordered to be paid by defendant on conviction
on indictment of any assault, 93

costs may be levied by distress, 95

with intent to rob, 134

ATTEMPT,

to murder by poison, 45

by wounding or causing grievous bodily harm, 45

by destroying buildings with gunpowder, 46

by setting fire to or casting away ships, 47

to administer poison, 47

to shoot or discharge loaded arms at, 47
to drown, suffocate, or strangle, 47

by any other means, 48

to maim, disfigure, or disable, or to do grievous bodily harm,

52

to choke, &c., with intent to commit an offence, 53

to administer chloroform, &c., with intent to commit an
offence, 54

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to commit abominable crime, 85

to take or destroy fish, 119

to set fire to building, 214

to destroy buildings with gunpowder, 215

to set fire to crops of corn, &c., and stacks and steers, 222

to set fire to mines, 229
to injure telegraphs, 237
to set fire to ships, 244

ATTORNEY,

embezzling money or securities intrusted to him with a
written direction, 166

or goods, &c., or power of attorney intrusted to him

for safe custody, 166

fraudulently selling property intrusted to him for safe custody,
168

B.

BAIL,

acknowledging in name of another without authority, 293
recognizance, form of, 381

BAILEE,

when guilty of larceny, 102

may be convicted on indictment for larceny, 102
observations on the clause, 103

BANKS OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND,

embezzlement by officers and servants of, 163

forging transfer of stock at, or power of attorney to transfer
stock, 266

personating the owner of stock, 267

forging attestation of power of attorney to transfer stock,
268

making false entries in the books of, 269

clerks, &c., making out false dividend warrants, 270

forging the notes or bills of, 274

purchasing or receiving forged bank notes, &c., 275

making paper with "Bank of England" or "Bank of
Ireland" in it, or with waving bar lines, or selling, &c.,
such paper, 275

engraving, &c., plates for making notes of Bank of England
or Ireland, or having such plates, &c., or uttering such
paper, 278

engraving on plates numbers, devices, &c., of notes, &c., 279
search for notes and instruments for forging, 309

BANK,

deposit in, stealing, &c., securities for, 99, 122

BANK NOTES,

forgery of the notes or bills of the bank of England or Ireland,
or of any other bankers, 274

purchasing or receiving forged bank notes, 275

are valuable securities, 99

larceny of, 122

search for, 309

BANK POST BILL,
forging, 274

BANK, WALL, or DAM,

of sea, river, canal, drain, reservoir, pool or marsh, damaging
or destroying, whereby lands or buildings are overflowed,
231

maliciously removing piles, &c., used for securing any such
bank, wall, or dam, 232

BANKER,

embezzling money or securities intrusted to him, with a
written direction, 166

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

BANKER-continued.

fraudulently selling property intrusted to him for safe cus-
tody, 168

BAPTISM,

register of, forgery, &c., of entry in, 294

BARGE,

larceny from, in river, canal, &c., 152

BARN,

setting fire to, 210

rioters demolishing, 216

injuring, 217

BATTERY. See ASSAULT.

BEAST,

stealing horses and other cattle, 109

the subject of larceny, killing with intent to steal, 110
ordinarily kept in confinement or for any domestic purposes,
and not the subject of larceny, stealing, 117

killing with intent to steal, 117

any such beast or its skin may be restored to the owner, 118
person having possession thereof, knowing it to have been
stolen, liable to summary conviction, 118

maliciously killing, maiming, or wounding any beast not
being cattle, but being either the subject of larceny, or
ordinarily kept in confinement or for any domestic pur-
pose, 242

BIGAMY,

marrying another at any place during the life of the former
husband or wife, 81

exceptions :

1. where second marriage is out of England and
Ireland by a person not a British subject, 81

2. where husband or wife has been absent for seven
years and not known to be living, 81

3. divorce à vinculo matrimonii, 81

4. where first marriage has been declared void, 81

offender may be tried where apprehended or in custody, 81

BILL OF EXCHANGE,

stealing, &c., 99, 122

forging, 283

causing to be executed by force, 138

by fraud, 178

BILL OF LADING,

stealing, &c., 98, 122

BIRD,

ordinarily kept in confinement or for any domestic purpose,
and not the subject of larceny, stealing, 117

killing with intent to steal, 117

any such bird or its plumage may be restored to the owner,
118

person having possession thereof, knowing it to have been
stolen, liable to summary conviction, 118

maliciously killing, maiming, or wounding any such bird, 242

BIRTH,

register of, forging, altering, &c., 294

concealing birth of a child, 83

BLACK CAWKE,

stealing from mine, 132

BLACK LEAD,

stealing from mine, 132

BOAT,

stealing from, in port, river, canal, &c., 152

BODILY INJURY,

causing, with intent to murder, 45
attempting to cause, with like intent, 47

with intent to maim, disfigure, &c., 52

to prevent apprehension or detainer, 52

inflicting, with or without a weapon, 53

causing gunpowder to explode with intent to cause, 58
placing gunpowder near building with like intent, 58
setting spring guns with like intent, 59

drivers of carriages causing, 63

causing, to any apprentice or servant, 56

BODY CORPORATE.

BOND,

a valuable security,

stealing, 122

forging, 282

See CORPORATE.

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BRIDGE,

pulling down or destroying, whether over a stream of water
or not, so as to render the same dangerous, 233

for conveying minerals from mines, 230

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