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1818 June 26
Penal Code. Offences Private
Offenders and Offences Accessory.
Examples of the various manners in which the illegal power
here in question may have been acquired continued or
preserved.
1. Abduction by force or fraud.
2. Retention , by force or fraud in a state into which the enslaved
person party came without either: for instance in a land
carriage, in a ship or other navigable vessel of any kind.
Examples of Co-Offenders.
Exam In the case of the Negro Slave trade, and other
branches of the Slave trade in of which the natives of uncivilized
countries are the subjects.
1. All persons concerned in putting the party injured
by arrestation seizure into a state of imprisonment of confinement.
2. All persons concerned in purchasing him or her
of those any by whom in the country in which he was seized
he was found so kept in confinement.
3. All persons concerned in conveying him by or
land or sea water to the place where he has been or has
been intended to be sold: if by water, the Master, the Crew
and all persons concerned in the purchase, lease, equipment or clearance or insurance of the
vessel, they being respectively
conscious
of the purpose
or having
before their eyes reasonable
grounds for suspecting
it.
4. All persons concerned in the transfer of the enslaved
any successive transfers of the enslaved person, made
for the continuance of the enslavement, antecedently to
the time day at which for the first time he came into land
authorized by the law of the place to hold him thus in
such slavery.
Offenders To this genus of offence belongs not the offence
if any, of him who for the profit by sale of the term or otherwise
engages a person to suffer himself to be conveyed to a foreign
country for the purpose
of being there kept in
a state of limited subjection
for a limited
number of years: unless the design appears be proved to be to keep him in such subjection for a term beyond the term specified an indefinite term, or for a term longer than the term agreed on.
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