INJURIES TO THE PERSON-continued. Child stealing. See p. 26, ante. Arresting clergymen during divine service, or go- INSOLVENT DEBTORS. A prisoner wilfully and fraudulently omitting in 7 G 4. Persons forswearing in any oath to be taken s. 71. Quakers making false affirmations, incur and shall suffer the same pen. as for perjury. Id. INTERPRETATION, General rule of, relating to any offence what- 7 & 8 G. 4. ever, punishable upon ind. or summary juris. (a) The words "or her," which no doubt were intended to have been inserted, are omitted in the statute. c. 29. 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 28. 7 G. 4. c. 64. INTERPRETATION-continued. statute. or any other In describing or referring to the offence or the JUDGMENT, On indictment for felony without benefit of Where a person is indicted for any offence for which by this or any other statute or statutes made or to be made, the offender is or shall be excluded from the benefit of clergy, JUDGMENT-continued. c. 64. such person shall be equally excluded from 7 G. 4. Of death in capital cases. Sentence of death, post. K. KEELMEN. Assaulting to prevent them working. See p. 14. Unlawfully and maliciously killing, maiming 7 & 8 G.4. 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 30. 5 G. 4. c. 53. KILLING CATTLE―continued. Impr. not ex. 4 yrs. If a male, to be once, Maiming cattle. See Maiming, post. Stealing or embezzling His Majesty's am- L. LABOUR, HARD-Punishment of, in certain cases of misd. 3 G. 4. c. 114. The Ct. may sentence an offender to Impr. with H. L. for any term, not ex. the term for which the Ct. might before the passing of this act, Impr. for such offences either in add. to or in lieu of any other pun. which may be inflicted on offender by any law in force before this act, that is to say, attempt to commit fel. riot, uttering counterfeit mo LABOUR, HARD-continued. c. 114. ney, knowing the same to be counterfeit, 3 G. 4. keeping a com. gaming, or bawdy or disorderly house, wilful and corrupt perjury, or subornation of perjury; having entered any open or inclosed ground, with intent illegally to destroy, take, or kill game or rabbits, or with intent to aid, abet and assist any person or persons illegally to destroy, take, or kill game or rabbits, and having been found at night armed with any offensive weapon. 3 Geo. 4. c. 114. LARCENY (a)-General Clauses (b). The distinction between grand and petty larceny. s. 2. is abolished, and every larceny, whatever may be the value of the property stolen, shall be of the same nature, and subject to the same incidents as grand larceny was before the 1st July, 1827, and every Ct. whose power as to the trial of larceny, was before the 1st July, 1827, limited to petty larceny shall have power to try every case of larceny, the pun. of which cannot ex. the pun. for (a) To constitute the offence of larceny, there must be a taking from the possession, a carrying away against the will of the owner, and a felonious intent to convert to the offender's use. (b) The larceny consolidation act (7 & 8 G. 4. c. 29.) commenced 1 July 1827. |