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C 3.
Of criminal Waste or Devastation. Destruction or Endamagement
Punishment
1 If any one commit criminals to Devastation
his punishment shall be as follows:
He may be made to suffer ignominious
1. Characteristic penance. This at option: more or less public. at discretion.
2. In other respects he shall be punished as for
Theft. except that the conforcement to hard labour But the hard labour may be changed into imprisonment: Quasi-imprisonment, or banishment.
may be changed into Imprisonment. simple confinement except where the averting of a loss, or the
making of a profit is the motive to the crime.
See Aggrav. I. Gain.
Excuses.
Are the same as in Theft.
Aggravations 1, 2, 3, and 4th.
Are the same as in Theft. To p. 5. at top
From p. 6 at bottom
Aggravation II. Irreplaceablility in Trees.
2 Where the thing damaged or destroyed is a
Tree planted or preserved for the sake of shelter,
shade or ornament: and the offender knows it so
to be.
Extra-punishment
In such case over and above the ordinary
term the offender may be confined to hard labour.
or imprisoned, 1. Hard labour or Imprisonment Quasi-imprisonment or Banishment prolonged untill the Tree if damaged shall
have recovered itself; or if destroy'd, until a tree of the same
sort and of equal size can be shall have f have been made to grow in
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