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Offences. Table of Definitions.
1.
A simple Personal
Injury is where without
lawful cause a man is concerned
in occasioning bodily pain or uneasiness
to another without occasion
or intending him any farther
corporal mischief; or knowing him
to be in immediate danger and
being bound to assist him, forbears
giving him assistance.
2.
A Simple Mental Injury
is where without lawful cause a
man is concerned in occasioning
pain or uneasiness of mind to another
without committing any other
offence; or knowing him to be in immediate
danger of sustaining such
uneasiness and being bound to save
him from it, forbears to do so.
3.
Irreparable Personal Injuries
are either 1. Irreparable Disfigurement
2. Irreparable Disablement
or 3. Mutilation.
1. Irreparable Disfigurement
is where in the shape or colour of a
man's person any unalterable change
is produced the effect of which is to
render his aspect less agreeable.
2. Irreparable Disablement
may either be compleat when he is
deprived of the use of it in the past.
3. Mutilation is the extirpation
or depriving a person of the
substance of any member of the
body having separate motions or
specific faculties.
4. Unlawful Confinement is where
without lawful cause, a man is concerned
in confining another to any
place against his will.
5.
Kidnapping is where without
lawful cause a man is concerned
in conveying a person against
his will to a place beyond
sea or out of the dominions of the
state; knowing himself to have
no right so to do, and intending that
to be amenable to law.
6.
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Unlawful Homicide is where
without lawful cause a person is concerned
in occasioning the death of another,
or [knowing] having reason to believe to be immediate
danger and being bound to assist
him suffers him to perish for want of
[subsistence.] sustenance
7.
Unlawful Threats are where
a man is intentionally concerned in
giving you reason to apprehend that by
his means some injury will be done
to you.
8.
Theft or Stealing is where a
man is concerned in taking any thing
that possesses a value worth regarding
knowing that is possesses such a Value and that
he has no right to be concerned in
taking it, intending to dispose of it
to his own purposes and not to be
amenable for it to the law.
9.
Embezzlement is where a man
is concerned in keeping any thing that
possesses a value worth regarding; knowing
that is possessed such a value, and
that he has no right to be concerned in
keeping it; and intending to convert that with the intent of converting it
it to his own use, and of not being not to be amenable
for it to law.
10.
Shaping or Fraudulent Obtainment
is where a man by false
suggestions or deceitful behaviour, of
the falsity or deceitfulness whereof he
himself is conscious, is concerned in
obtaining money or money's worth, intending
to dispose of it to his own
purposes and not to be amenable
for it to law.
11.
Fraudulent Substitution
is where a man is concerned that stealing
embezzling, or fraudulently obtaining
any think of value, leaving or delivering
in the room of it some other
thing of less value knowing it not to be
the same, but intending it shall be
taken for the same.
12.
Simple Mercantile Frauds are
as follows
1. Where a man is concerned in [selling
or not] a thing or letting it to here] pretending
that there is a certain quantity
of it, and knows at the same
time
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time that there is not so much; intending
thereby to make a profit
which he has no right to make:
2. Or in selling or letting
out to hire a thing pretending it
to be of a certain sort or quality
yet knowing that it is of an inferior
sort of quality or value.
3. Or having taken a thing
in hand in order that he upon
trust to may render the same back
with improvement and upon so
doing to be paid, renders it back
pretending it to be of a certain
sort or quality, yet knowing at
the same time that it is of an inferior
sort, or quality or value.
13.
Insolvency is where a man
being bound to pay a debt or perform
a any other service by a certain time,
fails to pay or perform it at that
time.
Insolvency is either blameless
or culpable. It is blameless,
when it is owing solely to misfortune.
It is culpable, when it is
owing in any degree to misconduct.
14.
A Fraud relative to the Coin
is where a man with a fraudulent
intent is concerned in diminishing
or counterfeiting the genuine Coin
of this or any foreign state; or in uttering
in confederacy with a person
thus concerned, any diminished or
counterfeit Coin, knowing it to be
so.
15.
Extortion
16.
Usury
in disposing of a thing for
valuable consideration
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17.
Peculation is where in
prejudice of a fund in the management
of which he is employed, is concerned in
making a profit which he knows be
unlawful.
18.
Clandestine Destruction
19.
Obstinate Destruction is where
a man being in the possession of a thing
which is irreplaceable, and knowing or
apprehending that it will be claimed
by another, secretes or damages or destroys
it to prevent his adversary
from recovering it in as good plight
as it ought to be by course of law.
20.
Unlawful Defamations
where without lawful course a man
is concerned in propagating any action
concerning matter of fact to the
prejudice of the reputation of another.
21.
Unlawful Reproach is
where without lawful cause in the
view of giving you uneasiness or prejudicing
you in your Reputation
a man is concerned in making
known that he or any other person
regards you with aversion
or contempt.
22.
Open Robbery is when
a man is concerned in extorting money
or money's worth from another
by the terror of some injury knowing
the same to be an injury and
intending not to be amenable to
law.
23.
Clandestine Robbery is
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Table of Definitions. into Table 1830
1775 & 1784 Table of Definitions. Offences
24.
Forcible and Lawless Destruction
25.
A Personal Insult is
where a man is concerned in doing
or attempting to do any thing to the
person of another in the intention of
expressing contempt for him or
exposing him to the contempt of
others.
26.
Rape is where a man has
carnal knowledge of a person female
not consenting.
27.
Defilement of Infants
28.
Seduction is where a man
by false pretences or promises of
marriage obtains carnal knowledge
of an unmarried female
in good reputation of chastity.
29.
Lascivious Assaults
30.
An Insulting Threat is
where the intention of expressing
contempt for you or of exposing
you to the contempt of
others a man is concerned in intimating
that by his means some
injury will be done to yourself
or any other one else.
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31.
Adultery is where a man
and a woman have carnal knowledge
of each other, one at least of
them being married but not to the
other.
32.
Polygamy is where a married
man or woman engages in a subsequent
marriage during the continuance
of a former.
33.
Matrimonial Imposture is
34.
Matrimonial Desertion is
where in a married couple either
party betakes himself or herself out
of the reach or knowledge of the
other.
35.
Matrimonial Disturbance or
Disturbance of conjugal Rights
is where a person without lawful
cause is concerned in hindering a
husband from enjoying the privileges
of his condition.
36.
A Forcible Marriage is
37.
Family Imposture is where
a person in the intent of enjoying or
causing another to enjoy the benefit
of being reputed to stand in a certain
degree of family relationship
to such another person or persons,
falsely pretends himself or another
to stand in that degree of relationship,
to the prejudice of some other
person, and knowing such
pretension to be false.
38.
Desertion of Children
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39.
Disturbance of Guardianship
is where person
without lawful cause is concerned
in hindering the Guardian
or the Ward of such or such a
person from enjoying the advantages
of their respective conditions.
40.
Child stealing is where
without lawful cause a man
is concerned in conveying a child
under ( ) years of age against
the will of his parents or other
guardians and of their reach
or knowledge; knowing him
itself to have no right so to do
and intending not to be amenable
to law.
41.
Incendiarism is where
without lawful cause a man
is concerned in kindling fire,
thereby intending to endanger the
life or damage the property of
another to the amount of £ 100
42.
Inundation
43.
Falshood; for instance Slandering
a title
44.
Personation
45.
Forgery is where a man is
concerned in making or uttering
any spurious writing or other permanent
instrument of discourse
knowing it to be spurious and
with
45.
with intent that is shall pass for
genuine; or altering materially any
such instrument with intent that
it shall pass as if unaltered.
46.
Perjury (in a legal sense) is where
a man being called upon by lawful
authority to declare the truth relative
to any matter upon oath he declares
what is materially false knowing
it so to be.
47.
Refusal of a Trust
48.
Breach of Trust
49.
Bribe-taking
50.
Bribe-giving
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