A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information: with a Copious Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Presentments, and Every Description of Practical Forms, with Comprehensive Notes Upon Each Offence, the Process, Indictment, Plea, Defence, Evidence, Trial, Verdict, Judgment, and Punishment, Volume 2S. Brooke, 1826 - Criminal law |
Common terms and phrases
Accessory aforesaid Assault Assizes Benefit of Clergy Calendar Months Cause Chattel Churchwardens Clerk committed Common Gaol convicted thereof Counties Palatine Courts of Sessions Damage delivered Discretion England Expences Felony or Misdemeanor forfeit and pay further enacted Gaol or House guilty of Felony hard Labour hereby herein-before last mentioned High Constable House of Correction imprisoned Inquests Intent Issue Jurors Book Justice Larceny lawful List Lords Spiritual Manner Murder Names Nisi Prius Number Offence Oyer and Terminer paid Parish or Township Payment Peace Penalty Person shall steal Person shall unlawfully Petty Sessions Plaintiff privately whipped Property Prosecution Provided publicly or privately punishable Quarter Sessions repealed respectively returned Riding Seas serve on Juries Sheriff Special Jury Statutes stolen Sum of Money summary Conviction summoned Term not exceeding therein think fit thrice publicly Treason Trial Under-sheriff United Kingdom unlawfully and maliciously valuable Security Venire Facias Wales Wapentake Warrant whatsoever wilfully
Popular passages
Page xlvii - ... purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Court or other Officer having the custody of the Records of the Court where the offender was first convicted, or by the Deputy of such Clerk or Officer...
Page 7 - ... the justice shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the convicting justice (unless where otherwise specially directed) to commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
Page 7 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of felony ; and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Page 9 - ... and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years...
Page 8 - Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years nor less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding Three Years...
Page liii - Court, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of Seven Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award...
Page lxiv - Act passed or to be passed, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 11 - ... may commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, as the justice shall think fit, for any term not exceeding two calendar months, unless such sum and costs be sooner paid...
Page lxix - ' for Costs shall be paid to [the Complainant^. Given '• under my Hand and Seal, the Day and Year first above mentioned.