TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

BOOK I.

OF PERSONS CAPABLE OF COMMITTING CRIMES, OF PRINCIPALS AND ACCESSORIES, AND OF
INDICTABLE OFFENCES.

OF OFFENCES PRINCIPALLY AFFECTING THE GOVERNMENT, THE PUBLIC PEACE, OR THE PUBLIC

RIGHTS.

CHAP.

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I. Of counterfeiting or impairing Coin. Of importing into the Kingdom

Counterfeit or Light Money, and of exporting Counterfeit Money

94

II. Of Frauds relating to Bullion, and of counterfeiting Bullion

IV. Of uttering, tendering, &c., Counterfeit Coin

111

III. Of the making, mending, or having in possession, any Instruments for

Coining

112

119

V. Of buying, selling, receiving, or paying for Counterfeit Coin at a lower

rate than its denomination imports

134

VI. Of serving, or procuring others to serve, Foreign States

VII. Of seducing Soldiers and Sailors to Desert or Mutiny

136

141

VIII. Of Piracy

144

IX. Of neglecting Quarantine, and of spreading contagious Disorders, and

of Injury to the Public Health

165

XVII. Of neglecting or delaying to deliver Election Writs

XI. Of hindering the exportation of Corn, or preventing its circulation

XVI. Of Bribery.

XVIII. Of dealing in Slaves

XIX. Of Forestalling, Regrating, and Ingrossing, and of Monopolies

XX. Of Maintenance and Champerty, and of buying and selling pretended

Titles

XXI. Of Embracery, and dissuading a Witness from giving Evidence

XXII. Of Barratry, and of suing in the Name of a fictitious Plaintiff.

X. Of Offences against the Revenue Laws relating to the Customs or Excise

172

183

186

194

200

214

223

241

243

252

254

264

266

268

321

378

406

413

415

421

CHAP.

XXX. Of Nuisances

XXXI. Of obstructing Process, and of Disobedience to Orders of Magistrate

XXXII. Of Escapes

XXXIII. Of Prison-breaking by the Party confined

XXXIV. Of Rescue; and of actively aiding in an Escape, or in an Attempt to

Escape

XXXV. of returning, or being at large after Sentence of Transportation; and

of rescuing or aiding the Escape of a Person under such Sentence

XXXVI. Of Gaming.

XXXVII. Of Offences relating to Dead Bodies

XXXVIII. Of going armed in the Night-time for the Destruction of Game, and of

assaulting Game-keepers

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435

569

581

592

597

607

624

629

639

IV. Of destroying Infants in the Mother's Womb

899

V. Of Rape, and the unlawful Carnal Knowledge of Female Children, and pro-

curing the Defilement of Girls under Age

904

VI. Of Sodomy

937

VII. Of the forcible Abduction and unlawful taking away of Females, and of

Clandestine Marriages

940

VIII. Of Kidnapping and Child-stealing

962

IX. Of Conspiracies and Attempts to Murder, of Mayhem or Maiming, and of

doing or attempting some great bodily Harm

967

X. Of Common Aggravated Assaults

1019

XI. Of Maiming, &c., by the furious driving, &c., of Stage-Coachmen

1051

XII. Of Setting Spring Guns, &c.

XIII. Of Offences relating to Railways and Railway Trains.