Sections 11, 14. By means of poison. Section 14. By shooting or attempting to shoot. 14. By drowning, suffocating, or strangling. 13. By setting fire to any ship. 13. By casting away or destroying any ship. Wrecks. Under the Merchant Shipping Acts the Board of Trade have throughout the United Kingdom the general superintendence of all matters relating to wreck, and can appoint receivers of wreck. Receivers have power in cases of wreck to summon help and to employ boats, waggons, &c., and persons refusing to assist are liable to a fine of 100l. In absence, &c., of receiver the following persons are in case of wreck or accident authorized to act:-Any principal officer of customs or coastguard or inland revenue, sheriffs, justices, naval and military commissioned officers on full pay. The officer acting to be considered the agent of the receiver, to whom goods or articles are to be handed over. Salvage. Persons who assist in saving lives of persons, or cargo, &c., of any ship stranded or wrecked are entitled to reasonable amount of salvage from owners. By 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 65, persons found in illegal possession of shipwrecked goods are liable to penalties, as also are persons found offering for sale shipwrecked goods unlawfully taken (section 66). By 24 & 25 Vict. c. 97, ss. 47, 48, 49, the exhibiting false signals, &c., with intent to bring any ship, vessel, boat, &c., into danger is felony, as is also the removing or concealing buoys or other sea marks, or the destroying wrecks or any articles belonging thereto. By 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent or impede any person being on board of, or having quitted any ship or vessel which shall be in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore in his endeavour to save his life, or shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent and impede any person in his endeavour to save the life of any such person as in this section first aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony. Punishment, penal servitude for life or imprisonment for two years (section 17). Not triable at sessions. Whosoever shall assault and strike or wound any magistrate, officer, or other person whatsoever lawfully authorized in or on account of the exercise of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel in distress, or of any vessel, goods, or effects wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or lying under water, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor (section 87). Regarding offences under 24 & 25 Vict. cc. 96, 97, and 100, referred to above, see EPITOME OF STATUTES, post. EPITOME OF STATUTES. ARRANGEMENT. I. Criminal Law Consolidation Acts, 1861. ACCESSORIES-24 & 25 Vict. c. 94. LARCENY ACT-24 & 25 Vict. c. 96. MALICIOUS INJURIES-24 & 25 Vict. c. 97. FORGERY-24 & 25 Vict. c. 98. COINAGE-24 & 25 Vict. c. 99. OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON-24 & 25 Vict. c. 100. II. The Licensing Acts. THE ALEHOUSE ACT, 1828-9 Geo. 4, c. 61. TRANSFER OF LICENSES AND REGULATION OF PUBLIC-HOUses, 1842-5 & 6 Vict. c. 44. THE REFRESHMENT HOUSES AND WINE LICENSES ACT, 1860- THE WINE AND BEERHOUSE ACT, 1869-32 & 33 Vict. c. 27. THE LICENSING ACT, 1874-37 & 38 Vict. c. 49. THE BEER DEALERS RETAIL LICENSES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1882-45 & 46 Vict. c. 34. III. The Summary Jurisdiction Acts. THE SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT, 1848-11 & 12 Vict. c. 43. THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT, 1885. EPITOME OF STATUTES. I. Criminal Law Consolidation Acts, 1861. ACCESSORIES. (24 & 25 VICT. c. 94.) An Act to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to Accessories to and Abettors of Indictable Offences (a). AS TO ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT. any before the before the Section 1.-Whosoever shall become an accessory before the Accessories fact to any felony, whether the same be a felony at common law fact may be or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, may be indicted, tried and tried, convicted, and punished in all respects as if he were a punished as principals. principal felon. Section 2.-Whosoever shall counsel, procure, or command Accessories other person to commit any felony, whether the same be a felony fact may be at common law or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, indicted as shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted such, or as either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished. AS TO ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT. substantive felons. after the Section 3.-Whosoever shall become an accessory after the Accessories fact to any felony, whether the same be a felony at common law, fact may be or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, may be indicted indicted as (a) See p. 76 (GENERAL SUBJECTS), ante. |