The Criminal Code of the Dominion of Canada, as Amended in 1893

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Carswell, 1893 - 1080 pages

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Contents

Execution of warrants
14
Sentence or process without jurisdiction
15
Irregular warrant or process
16
Persons assisting peace officer
17
Arrest of person found committing any offence at night
18
Force used in executing sentence or process or in arrest
19
Priyate person preventing escape from arrest for certain offences
20
Prevention by peace officers of breach of the peace
21
Suppression of riot by persons without orders
22
Selfdefence against provoked assault
23
Prevention of insult
24
Defence of dwellinghouse at night
25
Assertion of right to house or land
26
Discipline of minors
27
Obedience to de facto law
28
Offence committed other than the offence intended
39
Accessory after the fact
40
Attempts
42
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PART IV
46
Conspiracy
47
Treasonable offences
48
Assaults on the Queen
49
Resisting execution of warrant for arrest of deserters
50
Unlawfully obtaining and communicating official information
51
Communicating information acquired by holding office
52
Definition of riot
55
Punishment of unlawful assembly
56
Duty of justice if rioters do not disperse
57
Riotous damage to buildings
58
Unlawful drilling
59
Forcible entry and detainer
60
Challenge to fight a duel
61
Challenging to fight a prizefight etc
62
Other consequences of conviction for any such offence
80
Punishment of perjury
97
Causing dangerous explosions
99
Carrying a pistol or airgun without justification
105
Unlawfully advertisinga reward for return of stolen property
106
PART XI
107
Carrying sheathknives
111
Escape from lawful custody
112
Unlawfully procuring discharge of prisoner
113
TITLE IV
114
Obstructing officiating clergyman
115
Disturbing public worship
116
Possessing weapons near public works
117
Attempt to commit sodomy
118
Incest
119
Indecent acts
120
Acts of gross indecency
121
Posting immoral books etc
122
Seditious offences defined
123
Sec Page 183 Seduction of a ward servant etc
124
Unlawfully defiling women
125
Parent or guardian procuring defilement of girl
127
Householders permitting defilement of girls on their premises
128
Conspiracy to defile
129
Carnally knowing idiots etc
130
PART XIV
131
Common nuisances which are criminal
133
Common bettinghouse defined
134
Playing or looking on in gaminghouse
135
Gaming in stocks and merchandise
136
Betting and poolselling
137
Lotteries
138
Misconduct in respect to human remains
139
PART XV
140
Making false affidavit out of province in which it is used
143
Sec Page 212 Duty of persons doing dangerous acts
144
Abandoning children under two years of age
149
Causing bodily harm to apprentices or servants
151
Conspiring to bring false accusations
152
PART XVII
174
HOMICIDE
181
Uttering uncurrent copper coins
193
Homicide defined
205
Culpable homicide
206
Procuring death by false evidence
208
Acceleration of death
209
PART XVIII
210
Provocation
211
Punishment of murder
212
Threats to murder
222
Conspiracy to murder
224
Accessory after the fact to murder
225
Aiding and abetting suicide
226
Attempt to commit suicide
228
Concealing dead body of child
229
PART XIX
233
Unlawsul wounding
237
Shooting at Her Majestys vesselswounding customs or inland revenue officers
239
Administering poison so as to endanger life
240
Attempting to cause bodily injuries by explosives
248
Preventing the saving of the life of any person shipwrecked
255
Consent of child under fourteen no defence
261
Punishment for rape
267
Woman procuring her own miscarriage
276
Sec Page 277 Feigned marriages
287
Solemnization of marriage without lawful authority
288
Abduction of a woman
289
Abduction of girl under sixteen
292
Stealing children under fourteen
295
PART XXIII
296
Publishing defined
297
Fair discussion
298
Selling books containing defamatory matter
299
Punishment of defamatory libel known to be false
300
PART XXXVI
334
TITLE VI
336
Animals capable of being stolen
337
Theft defined
338
Theft of things under seizure
340
Theft of animals
341
Sec Page 309 Theft by person holding a power of attorney
342
Theft by coowner
345
Husband and wife
346
PART XXV
347
Receiving stolen post letter or post letter bag
353
Receiving property obtained by offence punishable on summary conviction
354
When receiving is complete
355
Agents and attorneys punishment
369
Tenants and lodgers
370
Judicial or official documents
371
Stealing post letter bags etc
372
Election documents
373
Dogs birds beasts and other animals
374
Pigeons
375
Things fixed to buildings or to land
376
Trees in pleasure grounds etc of five dollars valuetrees elsewhere of twentyfive dollars value
377
Trees of the value of twentyfive cents
378
Timber found adrift
380
Roots plants etc growing in gardens etc
381
Sec Page 342 Roots plants etc growing elsewhere than in gardens etc
382
Stealing from the person
383
Stealing in dwellinghouses
384
Stealing by picklocks etc
389
Fraudulently disposing of goods intrusted for manufacture
390
Receiving regimental necessaries c from soldiers or deserters 428
391
Stealing wreck
392
Stealing things deposited in Indian graves
393
Concealing
396
Stealing things not otherwise provided for
397
Punishment of false pretense
398
Obtaining execution of valuable security by false pretense
414
Falsely pretending to enclose money etc in a letter
417
PART XXVIII
418
False statement by official
419
False statement by public officer
421
Frauds in respect to the registration of titles to land
422
Unlawful dealings with gold and silver
423
Cheating at play
431
ROBBERY AND EXTORTION
444
Demanding with intent to steal
450
PART XXX
456
BURGLARY AND HOUSEBREAKING
469
Housebreaking and committing an indictable offence
475
Advertising counterfeit money and other offences connected
480
Breaking shop and committing an indictable offence
483
FORGERY
489
Document defined
509
Punishment of forgery
516
Counterfeiting seals of courts registry offices
522
Falsifying registers
530
Sec Page 445 Definition of forgery of a trade mark
535
Selling goods falsely markeddefence
536
Falsely representing that goods are manufactured for Her Majesty etc
537
Exception respecting trade description lawfully applied to goods on 22nd May 1888 etc
538
Personation of certain persons
539
Acknowledging instrument in false name
540
Uttering light coins medals counterfeit copper coins etc
554
Uttering defaced coin
555
PART XXXVII
557
Attempt to commit arson
564
Wrecking
570
Attempting to injure or poison cattle
579
Injuries not otherwise provided
585
101
587
Intimidation of any person to prevent him from working at
593
Making false entries in books relating to public funds
595
Accessories after the fact to certain indictable offences
600
CRIM LAWB
602
Abolition of distinction between felony and misdemeanour
603
Compounding penal actions
606
Disclosing official secrets
612
PART XLIV
627
Arrest of suspected deserter
633
Sec Page 567 Disposal of person apprehended on warrant
638
Proceeding when offender is not within the jurisdiction of
639
Search for public stores
641
Search warrant for gold silver c
642
Search in gaminghouse
643
Search for vagrant
644
Procuring attendance of witnesses
645
Service of summons for witnesses
646
Warrant for witness in first instance
647
Procuring attendance of witnesses beyond jurisdiction of justice
648
Witness refusing to be examined
650
Discretionary powers of the justice
651
Bail on remand
653
Hearing may proceed during time of remand
654
Evidence for the prosecution
655
Evidence to be read to the accused
656
Confession or admission of accused
657
Committal of accused for trial
659
Copy of depositions
660
Witness refusing to be bound over
662
Transmission of documents
664
Rule as to bail
665
Bail after committal
666
Bail by superior court
667
Warrant of deliverance
668
CRIM LAWC
673
Attendance of witnesses
677
Offences may be charged in the alternative 678
678
Evidence may be taken out of Canada under commission
683
Property of body corporate
684
Evidence of statement by accused
689
Accessories after the fact and receivers
697
Time to plead to indictment
710
Second accusation
726
Sec Page 643 Oath in open court not required
733
Bench warrant and certificate
736
PART XLIX
740
PART L
744
Bringing prisoner up for arraignment
751
Pleas in abatement abolished
752
Special provisions in the case of treason
755
PART LI
756
Prosecutors right to sum up
757
Qualification of juror
771
Mixed juries in the province of Quebec
772
Mixed juries in Manitoba
774
Calling the panel
776
Right to cause jurors to stand aside in case of libel
786
Jurors shall not be allowed to separate
787
Proceedings when previous offence charged
791
Proof of previous conviction of witness
802
Proof of contradictory statements by witness
808
Attempt chargedfull offence proved
817
Trial of joint receivers
827
Sec Page 721 Destroying counterfeit coin
829
Amendment to be endorsed on the record
830
Form of record of conviction or acquittal
845
Jury retiring to consider verdict
849
Proceedings on Sunday
850
Stay of proceedings
851
Motion in arrest of judgment on verdict of guilty
852
Judgment not to be arrested for formal defects
854
Verdict not to be impeached for certain omissions as to jurors
860
Insanity of accused on arraignment or trial
861
PART LII
864
Appeal when no question is reserved
865
Application for a new trial
872
New trial by order of Minister of Justice
873
Sec Page 760 Calendar of criminal cases in Nova Scotia
876
PART LIV
877
Duty of sheriff after committal of accused
878
Persons jointly accused
880
Powers of judge
881
PART LV
884
When magistrate shall have absolute jurisdiction
885
Summary trial in certain other cases
886
Punishment for certain other offences
887
Full defence allowed
888
Result of hearing to be filed in court of sessions
889
Forms to be used
890
Certain provisions not applicable to this part e ZvZZ Jaki i di
892
Procuring appearance of accused
893
Summons to witness
894
Form of conviction
895
Further proceedings barred
896
Costs
897
Application of this part
898
Costs in case of libel
899
Taxation of costs
900
Compensation to bond fide purchaser of stolen property
901
PART LVIII
906
Jurisdiction
907
Backing warrants
908
Execution of warrant
909
Nonappearance of prosecutor
910
Adjudication by justice
911
Disposal of penalties on conviction of joint offenders
917
Certificate of dismissal
918
Disobedience to order of justice
919
Release from further proceedings
920
Provisions respecting convictions
921
PART XXXIII
924
Order as to collection of costs
929
Endorsement of warrant of distress
931
Distress not to issue in certain cases
932
Appeal
933
Conditions of appeal
934
Proceedings on appeal
935
Appeal on matters of form
937
Costs when appeal not prosecuted
938
Irregularities within the preceding section
939
Imperial Act superseded
940
Abandonment of appeal
944
Tender and payment
946
Publication c of returns
947
Prosecutions for penalties under the preceding section
948
Preserving order in court
949
PART LIX
950
Right of surety to render not affected
951
Officer to prepare lists of persons under recognizance making default
953
Sale of lands by sheriff under estreated recognizance
954
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
955
Further detention of person accused 874
957
PART LX
958
TITLE VIII
959
Fine imposed shall be in discretion of court
960
Sentence of death to be reported to Secretary of State
961
When deputies may act
962
Inquest to be held
963
PART LXΙΙΙ IMPRISONMENT 950 Offences not capital how punished
964
Punishment for offence committed after previous conviction
965
Imprisonment may be for shorter time than that prescribed
966
Imprisonment in reformatories
967
PART LXIV
968
Recognizance to keep the peace
969
Proceedings for not finding sureties to keep the peace
972
PART LXVI
973
PART LXVII
974
Attainder
975
PART LXVIII
976
Satisfying judgment
977
Proceeding on default of recognizance
978
TITLE IX
979
TITLE X
980
Application of Act to N W T and Keewatin
981
Forms
983
APPENDIX Acts and parts of Acts which are not affected by this Act
986
Time for pleading to indictment in Ontario 875
1016
Definitions
1024
Words or marks on watch cases
1036
Delay in prosecution 876
1038
PREFERRING INDICTMENT
1064

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Page 534 - false trade description " means a trade description which is false in a material respect as regards the goods to which it is applied, and includes every alteration of a trade description, whether by way of addition, effacement, or otherwise, where that alteration makes the description false in a material respect...
Page 800 - ... a certificate containing the substance and effect only (omitting the formal part) of the indictment and conviction for such offence, purporting to be signed by the clerk of the Court, or other officer...
Page 805 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and Jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute.
Page 419 - ... to be false in any material particular, with intent to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder, or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or with intent to induce any person to become a shareholder or partner therein, or to intrust or advance any property to such body corporate or public company, or to enter into any security for the benefit thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...
Page 911 - B., &c., (stating the offence and the time and place when and where committed), and I adjudge the said AB, for his said offence, to forfeit and pay the sum of (stating the penalty, and also the compensation, if any), to be paid and applied according to law...
Page 254 - ... with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of any person...
Page 657 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge ? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so ; but whatever you say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence against you at your trial.
Page 791 - Provided, that if upon the trial of any person for any such subsequent offence such person shall give evidence of his good character, it shall be lawful for the prosecutor, in answer thereto, to give evidence of the conviction of such person for the previous...
Page 862 - English law, had the prisoner been of sound memory, he might have alleged something in stay of judgment or execution.
Page 927 - ... shall be sooner paid unto you the said keeper ; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.

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