The Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts of the 24 & 25 Vict: With Notes and ObservationsV. & R. Stevens & sons, 1861 - 357 pages |
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Page xxxviii
... Court to specify the instrument and the number of strokes seems very inexpe- dient , and the probable effect of this provision will be that the Courts will forbear to award whipping in cases where it is highly expedient . Under the ...
... Court to specify the instrument and the number of strokes seems very inexpe- dient , and the probable effect of this provision will be that the Courts will forbear to award whipping in cases where it is highly expedient . Under the ...
Page xli
... Court entirely unfettered as to the punishment in every case . It is so perfectly impossible to foresee all the circumstances that may happen to mitigate or aggravate any offence , that it is very advisable to leave a very wide ...
... Court entirely unfettered as to the punishment in every case . It is so perfectly impossible to foresee all the circumstances that may happen to mitigate or aggravate any offence , that it is very advisable to leave a very wide ...
Page liv
... Courts are pressed day after day form a melancholy proof , but there is no attempt at uniformity of language or frame ... Court any power to quash the conviction , it was by implication only . Again , bills occasionally pass the Houses ...
... Courts are pressed day after day form a melancholy proof , but there is no attempt at uniformity of language or frame ... Court any power to quash the conviction , it was by implication only . Again , bills occasionally pass the Houses ...
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... Courts which try criminals by indictment ; and if there be any point of law peculiarly clear , it is that no action will lie against any of the members of such a Court for any error in any judgment pronounced by that Court . The Courts ...
... Courts which try criminals by indictment ; and if there be any point of law peculiarly clear , it is that no action will lie against any of the members of such a Court for any error in any judgment pronounced by that Court . The Courts ...
Page lxiv
... Court may lawfully adjudge him to do or to suffer . It is a general rule also that when a statute creates a new felony or misdemeanor , all the common law inci- dents are impliedly attached to it . Where , therefore , a statute creates ...
... Court may lawfully adjudge him to do or to suffer . It is a general rule also that when a statute creates a new felony or misdemeanor , all the common law inci- dents are impliedly attached to it . Where , therefore , a statute creates ...
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15 Vict 9 Geo accessory aforesaid age of sixteen ante assault authority or excuse awarded Bank of England Bank of Ireland bill of exchange chattel clause is framed clause is taken common gaol convicted thereof county or place Court destroy discretion England and Ireland England or Ireland exceeding fourteen false or counterfeit forged or altered former enactments fraudulently gaol or house gold or silver governor and company guilty of felony hard labour imprisoned indictable offences intended to resemble intent to defraud justice larceny less than three liable Lord Malicious Injuries manner ment misdemeanor murder Note.-This clause peace penal servitude present clause prisoner prosecuted punishment relating repealed resembling or apparently Scotland set fire silver coin similar clause solitary confinement stolen summary offences term not exceeding term not less three years,—or tion unlawfully and maliciously utter valuable security warrant whatsoever whipping Whosoever shall unlawfully wilfully words in italics
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Page 211 - Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence, at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and no Plaintiff shall recover in any such Action if Tender of sufficient Amends shall have been made before such Action brought, or if a sufficient Sum of Money shall have been paid into Court after such Action, by or on behalf of the Defendant...
Page 284 - Majesty's superior Courts of Record ; and no Warrant of Commitment shall be held void by reason of any Defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the Party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid Conviction to sustain the same.
Page 125 - ... any chattel or valuable security, or any power of attorney for the sale or transfer of any share or interest in any public stock or fund, whether of...
Page 85 - ... commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, according to the discretion of the justice, for any term not...
Page 48 - ... he shall be released from all further or other proceedings, civil or criminal, for the same cause (m).
Page 117 - ... chattel, money, or valuable security, which shall be delivered to or received or taken into possession by him for or in the name or on the account of his master or employer...
Page 44 - Court to sentence the offender to be imprisoned, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common Gaol, or House of Correction...
Page 132 - Whosoever, being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular...
Page 183 - ... or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
Page 89 - Offender shall be deemed guilty of Felony, of the same Nature, and in the same Degree, and punishable in the same Manner as if he had stolen any Chattel of like Value with the Share, Interest, or Deposit to which the Security so stolen may relate, or with the Money due on the Security so stolen or secured thereby and remaining unsatisfied, or with the Value of the Goods or other valuable Thing mentioned in...