able regulations relative to prosecutions in criminal cases; then, the statute 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 31, relative to actions and other proceedings against the hundred; and lastly, the stat. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27, which repeals the several statutes, for which the provisions of the above statutes have been substituted. I have not, however, in any instance, altered the arrangement of the sections of these statutes, but have given them in the order and words of the statutes respectively; and after each section I have given the necessary forms of indictments &c. for the offences defined by it, and the evidence necessary to support them. This I conceived to be the simplest mode of arrangement I could have adopted. I might indeed have given the whole a more logical and technical arrangement, but at the expence of displacing the different sections of each statute, and of probably rendering the relation of each section to the others of the same statute uncertain.

In preparing this work for publication, I have not availed myself of any matter contained in the work already published by me on the Pleas of the Crown. That work is probably familiar to my Readers, and they can readily refer to it, if necessary, for the cases of construction decided upon the repealed statutes; I have found, in the Crown cases published since the last edition of that work, namely, the reports of Messrs. Russel and Ryan, and Ryan and Moody, abundantly sufficient for my present

purpose. I at one time entertained the idea of embodying the matter of the present work, in the work to which I have just now alluded; but I found it impracticable: indeed the very size of this work will at once shew the impossibility of ingrafting it upon the other.

As to the manner in which I have executed the present work, I shall only say, that I have endeavoured to render it deserving of the same approbation the Profession have so unsparingly conferred upon my other professional works. If it meet with the same favourable reception they have experienced, I shall have very sufficient reason to be satisfied.

J. F. A.

Symonds Inn.

CONTENTS.

Statute 7 & 8 George 4, c. 29.

SECT. 1. Commencement of the act, 1st July 1827, 1.

2. Distinction between grand and petty larceny abo-

lished, 2.

3. Simple larceny, punishment, 2; indictment, 3;

evidence, 3-13.

4. The court may award hard labour and solitary con-

finement, for all offences within this act punish-

able with imprisonment, 13.

5. Stealing promissory notes, bills of exchange or

other valuable securities, punishment, 13, 14;

indictment, 14; evidence, 15, 16.

6. Robbery, punishment, 16; indictment, 17; evi-

dence, 18.

Stealing from the person, punishment, 16; indict-

ment, 19; evidence, 20.

Assaulting with intent to rob, punishment, 16;

indictment, 21; evidence, 21.

Demanding money, &c. with menaces or by force,

with intent to steal the same, punishment, 16;

indictment, 22; evidence, 23.

7. Obtaining money, &c. by threatening to accuse a
man of an infamous crime, is robbery, 17.

8. Sending letters containing menacing demands of

money, punishment, 23; indictment, 25; evi-

dence, 25.

Threatening to accuse a man of a crime, with in-

tent to extort money, &c. punishment, 23;

indictment, 26; evidence, 27.

Sending letters threatening to accuse a man of a

crime, with intent to extort money from him,

punishment, 23; indictment, 27; evidence, 28.

9. What shall be deemed an infamous crime, 24.

SECT. 10. Breaking and entering a church or chapel, and

stealing therein, punishment, 28; indictment,

28; evidence, 29.

Stealing in a church or chapel, and breaking out

of the same, punishment, 28; indictment, 30;

evidence, 30.

11. Burglary, punishment, 31; indictment, 31; evi-

dence, 32.

Burglary in breaking out of a dwelling-house,

punishment, 31; indictment, 41; evidence,

42.

12. House-breaking, evidence, 43; indictment, 43;

evidence, 44.

Stealing in a dwelling-house, some person therein

being put in fear, punishment, 43; indictment,

45; evidence, 45.

Stealing in a dwelling-house to the value of 51,

punishment, 43; indictment, 46; evidence,

46.

13. What buildings only are to be deemed part of a

dwelling-house, in burglary and stealing from a

dwelling-house, 43.

14. Breaking and entering a building within the same

curtilage as the dwelling-house, but not pri-

vileged as part of it, and stealing therein, pun-

ishment, 48; indictment, 48; evidence, 49.

15. Breaking and entering a shop, warehouse or count-

ing-house, and stealing therein, punishment,

52; indictment, 52; evidence, 53.

16. Stealing silk, woollen, linen or cotton goods, in

any stage of manufacture, punishment, 53; in-

dictment, 54; evidence, 54.

17. Stealing goods in a ship &c. in a port, navigable

river or canal, punishment, 55; indictment,

55; evidence, 56.

Stealing goods from a dock, wharf or quay, pun-

ishment, 55; indictment, 57; evidence, 57.

18. Plundering a ship in distress or wrecked, punish-

ment, 58; indictment, 59; evidence, 59.

19. Persons, in whose possession shipwrecked goods

are found, not giving a satisfactory account of

them, punishment, 60; search warrant, 60;

order that the goods be delivered up, 61; con-

viction, 62.

20. Shipwrecked goods offered or exposed for sale,

may be seized, &c. and the party offering them,

not satisfactorily accounting for them, punish-

ment, 63, 64; summons, 64; conviction, 65,