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16. C

Of Semi-public Offences in General.

practice that seems to have the remotest tendency to weaken either
those artificial barriers or such natural (a) ones as are afforded by the course of the
country, and the nature of the soil. affect

Submersion Submersion, or the sinking of navigable vessels, a calamity not
materially distinct from Inundation, is almost every where provided.

Note.

[(a) Natural ones] By the Roman Law under Justinian it was made
penal to damage or destroy a sycamore tree (arbor sycaminon) upon
the banks of the Nile. Heinec. Elem. Sur. Civ. Pars. VII. Lib. 47. Tit. XI. §.
128. L. 10 ff, h. t. The roots of this tree it should seem were of use by
forming a kind of fence which served to detain the sand and prevent
its being washed away. + + See Kssell

There are several other plants which are protected in the same
view. Hvideriis, Sener, Klittetag, Slü, Torn. In Denmark the plant called Sandharre: Elymus arenarius Linn.
System. Nal. 91. 1. ed. dec. Flora Suecica, III. The Hielm, called in Holland
Helm. Arundo arenaria Linn. System: 87. 6. Flor: Suec. 108. Linn. Iter Scanicum
336. and several other Plants. See Lettres sur le Dannemarc Vol. 2.
Lett. 26. p. 162, 163. And Cod. Dan. L 6. c. 17. §. 19. See also Barrington's
Observations, on the Stat. sub regno Mariae.

By the British Law a kind of Rush is forbidden to be cut
on the North West Coasts of England or in any part of Scotland. See Stat.
15. Geo. II. c. 33. §. 6 and 9. In the Statute the Plant is called Starr or
Bent: which according to Hudson Flor. Ang. V. 2. p. is the
of Linnaeus.

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Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	131	Info in main headings field	of semi-public offences in general
Image	004	Titles
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