money of this kingdom, not being cut in pieces,
(an operation which is in what case directed,
and in what cases allowed and required, by cer-
tain statutes, to be performed;) for tendering
any counterfeit coin, knowing it to be so; for
doing so, having more in custody, or repeating
the offence within ten days after; and for coun-
terfeiting copper halfpence or farthings, or deal-
ing in it (not being cut in pieces or melted) at
a less value than it imports to be of? 98-100.
7. What is enacted by statutes 3 Hen. VII. c.
14, and 9 Anne, c. 16, as to felonies against the
king's council? 100, 101.
8. In what cases is it made felony to serve fo-
reign states, by statutes 3 Jac. I. c. 4, 9 Geo. II.
c. 30, and 29 Geo. II. c. 17? 101.
9. What is enacted by the statute 31 Eliz. c.
4 as to felony in embezzling the king's armour
or warlike stores; what effect upon this statute
has that of 22 Car. II. c. 5; how are other in-
ferior embezzlements and misdemeanours punished
by several statutes; and what is enacted by
statute 12 Geo. III. c. 24? 101, 102.
10. What is enacted by statutes 18 Hen. VI.
c. 19, and 5 Eliz. c. 5, as to desertion from the
king's armies in time of war, whether by land or
sea; what effect upon this statute has that of
2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 2; and how are other inferior
military offences punishable by the same statutes?
102.
CHAP. VIII.-Of Præmunire.
1. WHY is the offence of præmunire so called;
and whence did it take its original? 103.
2. What does the statute of præmunire, 16 Ric.
II. c. 5, enact; and who are also subjected to
the penalties of præmunire by statute 2 Hen. IV.
c. 3? 112.
3. What offences are made liable to the pains
of præmunire by the statutes of Hen. VIII. and
Eliz. 115.
4. To what penalty is the importing or selling
mass-books or other popish books liable, by statute
3 Jac. I. c. 5, 25? 115.
5. To what twelve other offences, some of which
bear no relation to the original offence, have the
penalties of præmunire been applied by various
statutes? 116, 117.
6. How is the punishment of præmunire shortly
summed up by Sir Edward Coke; except in the
case of transgressing what statute may the king,
by his prerogative, remit the whole or any part
of the punishment; and what does the statute 5
Eliz. c. 1 provide as to the consequences of an
attaint by præmunire? 117, 118.
CHAP. IX.-Of Misprisions and Contempts affect-
ing the King and Government.
1. WHAT are misprisions (mespris) and con-
tempts; and of what two sorts? 119.
2. Of what three kinds are negative misprisions?
120, 121.
3. What is misprision of treason; but what cir-
cumstances make this offender guilty of high
treason? 120.
4. What positive misprision of treason is cre-
ated by statute 13 Eliz. c. 2? 120.
5. What is the punishment for misorision of
treason? 120.
6. What is misprision of felony; and how is
it punished by the statute Westm. 1, 3 Edw. I.
c. 9? 121.
7. What is the punishment for misprision of
treasure-trove? 121.
8. Of what five kinds are positive misprisions, or
contempts, and high misdemeanours, the last four
consisting, in general, of such contempts of the
executive magistrate as demonstrate themselves by
some arrogant and undutiful behaviour towards
the king and government? 121-124.
9. What offences are included under the mis-
prision of the mal-administration of such high
officers as are in public trust and employment;
and how is it usually punished? 121, 122.
10. What are contempts against the king's pre-
rogative? 122.
11. Whose duty is it, and when, to join the
posse comitatus, or power of the county, according
to the statute 2 Hen. V. c. 8? 122.
12. How are contempts against the king's pre-
rogative punished? 122.
13. What are contempts and misprisions against
the king's person and government; and how may
they be punished? 123.
14. What are contempts against the king's title
not amounting to treason or præmunire; and how
are they punished? 123.
15. What offence is it, and how punishable by
statute 13 Eliz. c. 1, to maintain that the com-
mon laws of this realm not altered by parliament
ought not to direct the right of the crown of
England? 123.
16. What are the penalties inflicted by statute
1 Geo. I. st. 2, c. 13, for refusing or neglecting
to take the oaths appointed by statute for better
securing the government, and yet acting or serving
in a public office, place of trust, or other capa-
city, for which the said oaths are required to be
taken; and what if members, on the foundation
of any college in the two universities, who by
this statute are bound to take the oaths, do not
register a certificate thereof in the college register
within one month after? 123, 124.
17. What are contempts against the king's pa-
laces or courts of justice; and how are they, a
rescue from them, and an affray or riot near them,
but out of their actual view, punishable? 124,
125.
18. How are threatening or reproachful words
to any judge sitting in the courts punishable;
and how is an affray or contemptuous behaviour in
the inferior courts of the king? 126.
19. How are such as are guilty of any inju-
rious treatment to those who are immediately
under the protection of a court of justice punish-
able? 126.
20. How are endeavours to dissuade a witness
from giving evidence, disclosures of examination
before a privy council, advice to a prisoner to
stand mute, or disclosures by one of the grand
jury to any person indicted of the evidence against
him, construed and punished? 126.
CHAP. X.-Of Offences against Public Justice.
1. INTO what five species may those crimes and
misdemeanours that more especially affect the
commonwealth be divided? 127, 128.
2. What are the twenty-two offences against
| public justice, beginning with those that are most
penal, and descending gradually to such as are
of less malignity? 128-137, 139-141.
3. What is enacted by statute 8 Hen. VI. c. 12 as
to embezzling or vacating records, by statute 21
Jac. I. c. 26, as to acknowledging any proceedings
in the courts in the name of another person not
privy to the same, and, by statute 4 W. and M.
c. 4, as to personating any other person as bail?
4. What is enacted by statute 14 Edw. III. c.
10 if any gaoler compel any prisoner to become
an approver or an appellor? 128, 129.
5. What is the offence of obstructing the exe-
cution of lawful process in criminal cases; and
what is enacted by several statutes as to op-
posing the execution of any process in pretended
privileged places within the bills of mortality? |
6. Who are punishable for the escape of a
person arrested upon criminal process; how, and
when? 129, 130.
7. How is breach of prison by the offender him-
self punished by the statute de frangentibus pri-
sonam, 1 Edw. II.? 130, 131.
8. What is rescue; how is it punishable, and
when; what is enacted by statutes 11 Geo. II.
c. 26, and 24 Geo. II. c. 40, as to rescues of any
retailers of spirituous liquors, and by statute
16 Geo. II. c. 31, as to assisting prisoners to
escape; and what if any person be charged
with any of the offences against the black act, 9
Geo. I. c. 22, and, being required by order of
the privy council to surrender himself, neglect to
do so for forty days? 131.
9. Who are punishable for an offender's re-
turning from transportation, and how? 132.
10. What is enacted by statute 4 Geo. I. c. 11
as to the offence of taking a reward under pre-
tence of helping the owner to his stolen goods?
11. In the offence of receiving stolen goods
knowing them to be stolen, which makes the
offender accessory to the theft, of what other
punishment has the prosecutor, by statutes 1
Anne, c. 9, and 5 Anne, c. 31, the choice before
the thief be taken and convicted; and what is
enacted as to receivers and possessors of certain
metals, by statute 29 Geo. II. c. 30, and as to
knowing receivers of stolen plate or jewels
taken by highway-robbery or burglary? 132, 133.
12. What is theft-bote, and how is it punished;
and what is enacted by statute 25 Geo. II. c.
36 as to advertising a reward for the return of
things stolen with "no questions asked"? 133,
134.
13. What is common barretry; how is it pu-
nished; and what is enacted by statute 12 Geo.
I. c. 29 in case an attorney shall have been con-
victed of this offence? 134.
14. What is the punishment for suing in a
false name in the superior courts, and what in
the inferior, by statute 8 Eliz. c. 2? 134.
15. What is the offence of maintenance; when
is it not an offence; and what is the punishment
for it when it is by common law, and by statute
32 Hen. VIII. c. 9? 134, 135.
16. What is champerty (campi partitio); and
what has the law's abhorrence of it led it to say
of a chose in action by common law, and of a pre-
tended right or title to land, by statute 32 Hen.
VIII. c. 9 135, 136.
17. What is enacted by statute 28 Eliz c. 5
as to compounding informations upon penal sta-
tutes ? 136.
18. In what two ways may conspirators to
indict an innocent man of felony be punished?
136, 137.
19. How are threats of accusation in order to
extort money punishable by statute 30 Geo. II.
c. 24? 137.
20. How is perjury defined by Sir Edward
Coke; what is subornation of perjury; how are
they now punished at common law, with an added
power in the court to inflict what penalties, by
statute 2 Geo. II. c. 25; and how may they be
punished by statute 5 Eliz. c. 9? 137, 138.
21. When is bribery an offence against public
justice; in whom and how is it punished; and
what is enacted on this subject by a statute
11 Hen. IV.? 139, 140.
22. What is embracery; and in whom and how
is it punished? 140.
23. How was the false verdict of jurors ancientıy
considered, and how punished? 140.
24. In what public officers is negligence an
offence against public justice; and how is it punish-
able? 140.
25. How is the oppression and tyrannical par-
tiality of magistrates prosecuted and punished?
141.
26. When is extortion an abuse of public
justice; and what is the punishment for it? 141.
CHAP. XI.-Of Offences against the Public Peace.
1. Or what two species are offences against the
public peace; and of what two degrees are both
these kinds? 142.
2. What are the thirteen kinds of fences
against the public peace? 142-150.
3. What does the statute 1 Geo. I. c. 5 enact
as to the riotous assembling of twelve persons
or more, and not dispersing upon proclamation
143.
4. What does the statute 9 Geo. I. c. 22 enact
as to appearing armed, or hunting in disguise?
143, 144.
5. What does the same statute, amended by
statute 27 Geo. II. c. 15, enact as to sending any
demanding or threatening letter? 144.
6. What, by several late statutes, are the pe-
nalties for destroying or damaging any lock,
sluice, or flood-gate, or any turnpike-gate, or its
appurtenances, or for rescuing such destroyers
or damagers? 144, 145.
7. What are affrays (affraier); wherein do they
differ from assaults; by whom, and how, may
they be suppressed; and what is their punish-
ment? 145.
8. What is enacted by statute 5 & 6 Edw. VI.
c. 4 as to affrays in a church or churchyard? 146.
9. What are riots, routs, and unlawful assem-
blies; and of how many persons must they be
constituted; how are they punished by common
law; and what is enacted for their suppression
by statute 13 Hen. IV. c. 7? 146, 147.
10. What is tumultuous petitioning; and what
is enacted for its prevention by statute 13 Car.
II. st. 1, c. 5? 147, 148.
11. What is forcible entry or detainer; and how,
by several statutes, may it be suppressed and
punished? 148, 149.
12. What is the offence of going unusually
armed; and how is it prohibited by the statute
of Northampton, 2 Edw. III. c. 3? 149.
13. When is the offence of spreading false news
punishable, and how? 149.
14. How is the offence of pretended prophecy
punished by statute 5 Eliz. c. 15? 149.
15. In whom are challenges to fight punish-
able, and how; and what, by statute 9 Anne,
c. 14, if the challenge, or any assault or affray,
arise on account of any money won at gaming?
150.
16. What are libels which tend to the breach
of the peace; what is a publication of them,
in the eye of the law; what if they be true,
and what if they be false; what is the difference
between a libel in a civil action and a libel in a
criminal prosecution; and what is the punishment
of criminal libels? 150, 151.
13. What is enacted by several sta.ates of
Geo. II. and Geo. III. to prevent the seduction
of our artists abroad, and the destruction of our
home manufactures? 160.
CHAP. XIII.-Of Offences against the Public
Health and the Public Police or Economy.
1. WHAT are the two offences against the publie
health of the nation? 161, 162.
2. What is enacted by statute 1 Jac. I. c. 31
as to any person infected with the plague, or
dwelling in any infected house; and what is the
present law as to quarantine? 161, 162.
3. What is enacted by statutes 51 Hen. III
st. 6 and 12 Car. II. c. 25, 11 to prevent the
selling of unwholesome provisions and wine? 162.
4. What is meant by the public peace and eco-
nomy? 162.
17. Though it hath been long held that the
truth of a libel is no justification in a criminal
prosecution, yet what general rule has the court of
king's bench laid down as to granting an informa-c.
tion for a libel? 151.
CHAP. XII.-Of Offences against Public Trade.
1. Or what two degrees are offences against
public trade? 154.
2. What are the thirteen kinds of these of
fences? 154, 156-160.
3. What is owling; and what are its penalties,
by several statutes? 154.
4. What is smuggling; and how is it punished
by statute 19 Geo. II. c. 34? 154, 155.
5. What are the several species of fraudulent
bankruptcy taken notice of by the statute law;
and how are they punished? 156.
6. What, by statute 21 Jac. I. c. 19, if the
bankrupt cannot make it appear that he is dis-
abled from paying his debts by some casual loss;
and what, by statute 32 Geo. II. c. 28, and 33
Geo. III. c. 5, if a prisoner charged in execution
for debt (to what amount?) neglect or refuse on
demand to deliver up his effects? 156.
7. What is the penalty for usury; what if any
scrivener or broker take more than five shillings
per cent. procuration-money, or more than twelve-
pence for making a bond; and what is enacted
on this subject by statute 17 Geo. III. c. 26?
156, 157.
8. What offences may be referred to the head
of cheating; what is the general punishment for
all frauds of this kind if indicted at common law;
and what frauds are punished by the statutes
33 Hen. VIII. c. 1 and 30 Geo. II. c. 24? 157,
158.
9. How are the three offences of forestalling,
regrating, and engrossing described by statute
5 & 6 Edw. VI. c. 14; and what is the general
penalty for these offences by common lzo? 158,
10. What are monopolies; and how are they
punished? 159.
11. How are combinations among victuallers
or artificers to raise the prices of commodities
punished by statute 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 15? 159,
160.
12. How is the offence of exercising a trade
without having served an apprenticeship pu-
nished by statute 5 Eliz. c. 4? 160.
5. What are the nine offences against the public
peace and economy? 162–166, 169–171, 174.
6. What is enacted by the statute 26 Geo. II.
33 for the prevention of the offence of clan-
destine marriages? 162, 163.
7. What is bigamy, or more properly polygamy;
what is its effect upon the second marriage; and
how is it punished by statute 1 Jac. I. c. 11,
with an exception to what five cases? 163, 164.
8. How are wandering soldiers and mariners, or
persons pretending so to be, punished by statute
39 Eliz. c. 17? 164, 165.
9. How are persons calling themselves Egyp-
tians, or gypsies, now punished, by statute 23 Geo.
III. c. 51? 167.
10. What are common nuisances; and of what
seven sorts? 167, 168.
11. Who may be indicted, and what shall be
equivalent to such indictment, for annoyances in
highways, bridges, and public rivers, whether by
positive obstructions or want of reparation; and
what is a purpresture? 167.
12. What if innkeepers refuse to entertain a
traveller without a very sufficient cause? 167.
13. How may eaves-droppers be punished? 168.
14. How may a common scold (communis riza-
trix)? 168.
15. Into what three clases are idle persons
divided, and how is each class punished by sta-
tute 17 Geo. II. c. 5; and to what are persons
harbouring vagrants liable? 169, 170.
16. What one sumptuary law against luxury
is still unrepealed? 170.
17. What is enacted by statute 16 Car. II. c.
7 if any person by playing or betting shall lose
more than 100l. at one time; what does the sta-
tute 9 Anne, c. 14 enact as to all securities given
for money won at play, if any person at one sit-
ting lose 10l. at play, and if any person by cheat-
ing at play win the same sum; what does the
statute 18 Geo. II. c. 19 enact to prevent the
multiplicity of horse-races; and what, by statute
18 Geo. II. c. 34, if any person win or lose at
play, or by betting, 107. at one time, or 20%.
within twenty-four hours? 172, 173.
18. Who are guilty of the offence of destroy-
ing the game upon the old principles of the forest-
law, and who by the game-laws; and what are
the four qualifications for killing game, as they
are usually called, or, more properly, the ex
emptions from the penalties inflicted by the
statute law? 174, 175.
19. What are the punishments for unqualified
persons transgressing the game-laws in what ways;
and how may those punishments be inflicted?
175.
20. What is enacted for the preservation of
game by statute 28 Geo. II. c. 2? 175.
CHAP. XIV.-Of Homicide.
1. Or what three principal kinds are those
crimes and misdemeanours which in a more pecu-
liar manner affect and injure individuals or
private subjects? 177.
2. Of crimes injurious to the persons of private
subjects, what is the most principal and important?
177.
21. What is felonious homicide, and of what
two kinds? 188.
22. What is self-murder, or felo de se; does it
admit of accessories; when, and in whom, may
it happen, and when in a real lunatic? 189, 190.
23. How is self-murder punished? 190.
24. What if a husband and wife be possessed
jointly of a term of years in land, and the hus-
band drown himself; and why? 190.
25. How do the two degrees of guilt in killing
another divide the offence; and what is the dif
ference between either division of it? 190.
26. How is manslaughter therefore defined;
and of what two branches is it? 191.
27. When is it voluntary manslaughter; and
what circumstance makes it amount to murder?
3. Of what three kinds, and of what three de- 191.
grees of guilt, is homicide? 177, 178.
4. In what three cases is homicide justifiable?
178, 179.
5. What offence is it wantonly to kill the great-
est of malefactors? 178.
6. What if judgment of death be given by a
judge not authorized by lawful commission, and
execution be done accordingly? 178.
7. What if even the judge execute his own
judgment; and what if an officer behead one who
is adjudged to be hanged, or vice versȧ? 179.
8. Of what six kinds are justifiable homicides,
committed for the advancement of public justice?
179, 180.
9. But, in all these first five cases, what appa-
rent necessity must there be on the officer's side?
180.
10. When is it lawful to kill any person who
attempts a burglary; and what is the uniform
principle that runs through all laws as to repel-
ling crimes by homicide? 180, 181.
11. What is Mr. Locke's doctrine on this sub-
ject, and how is it received by the commentator?
181, 182.
28. In what, therefore, does voluntary man-
slaughter differ from excusable homicide, se defen-
dendo? 192.
29. In what does involuntary manslaughter
differ from homicide excusable by misadventure?
192.
30. But what circumstances will make involun-
tary manslaughter amount to murder? 192, 193.
31. What is the punishment of manslaughter?
193.
32. But is there not one species of manslaugh-
ter which is punished as murder by statute 1 Jac.
I. c. 8; and how is this statute construed? 193,
33. How is murder defined, or rather described,
by Sir Edward Coke? 195.
34. What if a person be indicted for one spe-
cies of killing, or for killing with one weapon,
and it proves to have been another? 196.
35. May a man be guilty of murder although
no stroke be struck by himself, or no killing
primarily intended? 196.
36. Within what time after the stroke received
must the party die in order to make the killing
12. Wherein does excusable differ from jus-murder? 197.
tifiable homicide; and of what two sorts is the
former? 182.
13. In what cases does homicide per infortu-
nium, or misadventure, happen? 182.
14. In what cases, however, is the slayer
guilty of manslaughter and not misadventure only;
but when are deaths in tilts or tournaments, box-
ing, or sword-playing only misadventure? 183.
15. What is homicide in self-defence, or se de-
fendendo; what is chance-medley, or chaud-medley;
and what must appear to excuse homicide by the
plea of self-defence? 183, 184.
16. What seems to be the true criterion to dis-
tinguish homicide upon chance-medley, in self-de-
fence, from manslaughter in the legal sense of the
word? 184, 185.
17. What civil and natural relations are com-
prehended under the excuse of se defendendo,
and why? 186.
18. Is there not one species of homicide se
defendendo where the party slain is equally in-
nocent with him who occasions his death; and
upon what principle is this homicide excusable?
186.
19. In what circumstances do the two species
of homicide by misadventure and self-defence agree;
and what does the law's high value for the life
of a man always intend? 186, 187.
20. What is the penalty for homicide? 188.
37. When is it murder to kill a child in its
mother's womb; and what is enacted by the sta-
tute 21 Jac. I. c. 27 as to a mother's concealing
the death of her bastard child; but what is now
required upon trials for this offence? 198.
38. What constitutes malice prepense, malitia
præcogitata; and when is malice express, and
when implied, in law? 198-201.
39. Who are guilty of murder in deliberate
duelling? 199.
40. If two or more come together to do an
unlawful act against the king's peace, and one of
them kill a man, in whom is it murder? 200.
41. What if one intend to do another felony,
and undesignedly kill a third man? 201.
42. Unless in what cases may it be taken for
a general rule that all homicide is malicious?
201.
43. What is the punishment of murder; and
what is enacted on that subject by statute 25
Geo. II. c. 37? 201, 202.
44. What is petit treason (parva proditio); and
by what three ways may it happen, according to
statute 25 Edw. III. c. 2? 203.
45. Of what crime is a servant guilty who kills
his master whom he has left upon a grudge con-
ceived against him during service; and whom
is it petit treason in a clergyman to kill? 203.
46. May a person indicted of petit treason be
found guilty of manslaughter or murder; and
how many witnesses are necessary in case of
petit treason? 204.
47. What is the punishment for petit treason,
and what in a woman, by statute 30 Geo. III.
c. 48? 204.
48. What is the punishment for the aiders,
abettors, and counsellors of petit treason? 204.
CHAP. XV.-Of Offences against the Persons of
Individuals.
1. Or what two degrees of guilt are other
offences against the persons of individuals? 205.
2. What are the four felonies? 205, 208, 210,
215.
3. What amounts to mayhem, mayhemium; and
how is it punished by statutes 5 Hen. IV. c. 5,
37 Hen. VIII. c. 6, and 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, called
the Coventry act? 205-207.
4. What is enacted by statute 9 Geo. I. c. 22
as to the offence of maliciously shooting at any
person? 207.
5. What is enacted by statutes 3 Hen. VII.
c. 2 and 39 Eliz. c. 9 as to the offence of forcible
abduction and marriage of a female, or, as it is
vulgarly called, stealing an heiress? 208.
6. What four things have been determined in
the construction of the first of these statutes;
what has been determined as to the will of the
woman; and what general rule of law may be
violated in punishing this offence? 208, 209.
7. What is enacted by the statutes 4 & 5 Ph.
and M. c. 8 and 26 Geo. II. c. 33 as to an in-
ferior degree of the same kind of offence? 209,
8. What is the crime of rape; and what is
enacted as to its punishment by statute 18 Eliz.
c. 7? 210, 212.
9. Who is presumed by the law incapable to
commit a rape? 212.
10. Can a rape be committed upon a concubine
or harlot? 212, 213.
11. What has been determined as to the com-
petency and credibility of witnesses upon an in-
dictment of rape; and what has been now settled
as to hearsay evidence of the declarations of a
child who hath not capacity to be sworn? 213,
214.
12. What is the punishment for the crime
against nature? 215, 216.
13. What are the five inferior offences or misde-
meanours against the personal security of the sub-
ject? 216.
17. What is kidnapping; how is it punished at
common law; and what does a clause of the sta-
tute 11 & 12 W. III. c. 7 enact to prevent the
leaving of kidnapped persons abroad? 219.
CHAP. XVI.-Of Offences against the Habitations
of Individuals.
1. WHAT are the only two offences that mor
immediately affect the habitations of individuals,
or private subjects? 220.
2. What is arson (ab ardendo)? 220.
3. What is such a house as may be the subject
of arson? 221.
4. When is wilfully setting fire to one's own
house arson; and when a high misdemeanour ? 221.
5. What if a landlord or reversioner set fire to
his own house of which another is in possession
under lease? 221.
6. What amounts to the burning which con-
stitutes arson; and what is enacted by the sta-
tute 6 Anne, c. 31 if any servant negligently set
fire to a house or outhouses? 222.
7. How is arson punished in whom? 222, 223.
8. What is burglary, burgi latrocinium; what
may a man do to protect his house which he is
not permitted to do in any other case; and how
is a burglar defined by Sir Edward Coke? 223,
224.
9. At what time must the burglary be com-
mitted; and what is held as to the light by which
10. What is Sir Edward Coke's definition of
the place in which a burglary must be com-
mited; and why does it not seem extensive
enough; and when may a burglary be committed
in a barn, stable, or warehouse? 224, 225.
11. When is a lodging the mansion-house of the
lodger; and can burglary be committed in the
shop, parcel of another man's house, which I hire
to work or trade but not to lie in, or in a tent or
booth erected in a market or fair, in which I do
lodge? 225, 226.
12. As to the manner of committing burglary,
what must there be to complete the offence; and
what if a hole be broken one night, and the
same breakers enter the next night through the
same? 226.
13. In what cases may burglary be committed
without breaking, or loosing of fastenings ? 226,
14. What is sufficient to constitute the entry
which is burglarious; and what is declared as to
the precedence of the entry and the burglary by
statute 12 Anne, c. 7? 227.
15. What is the law as to the intent of bur-
glary? 227, 228.
16. How is burglary punished in whom? 228.
14. What are the public penalties for assault,
battery, and wounding; what other ignominious
corporal penalties are inflicted in the case of as-
saults with intent to murder, or to commit either
of the crimes last spoken of; and, when both
parties are consenting to the last crime, what is CHAP. XVII.-Of Offences against Private Pro-
it usual to charge? 216, 217.
15. What is enacted by the statute called ar-
ticuli cleri, 9 Edw. II. c. 3, as to the offence of
beating a clerk in orders? 217, 218.
1. WHAT are the three offences against private
subjects which more immediately affect their pro-
16. As to the public offence of false imprison-perty, two of which are attended with a breach
ment, how is the sending of any subject of this
realm a prisoner beyond the seas punished;
what does the statute 43 Eliz. c. 13 declare as
to this kind of offence in the four northern
counties; and how are inferior degrees of false
Imprisonment punishable by indictment? 218.
2. Into what two sorts is larceny, by con-
traction for laticony, latrocinium, distinguished
by the law? 229.
3. When is simple larceny called grand, and
when petit, larceny? 229.
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