Those denominated 1. Offences against the Sovereign and the Criminal Offences, State; including High Treason. _viz._ 2. Offences against human life and bodily safety. 3. Offences against honour and liberty. 4. Offences against possessions and rights. Those denominated 5. Offences that endanger the life or health Civil Offences, of the Citizens. _viz._ 6. Offences that affect the fortunes or rights of the Citizens. 7. Offences that tend to the corruption of morals. The offences are divided into seven different classes. It is impossible, within the narrow compass of this Work, to enter into a particular detail of the various subdivisions of the Crimes and Punishments explained in this Code; which must be perused, in order to form a clear and comprehensive view of the subject. The following Specification therefore contains merely the _heads_ or outlines of the System; which it is hoped may be found, from the mode of its arrangement, to convey to the reader both amusement and instruction. ABSTRACT OF _THE CRIMINAL CODE_ OF THE EMPEROR JOSEPH II. * * * * * CRIMES. PUNISHMENTS. _High Treason._ 1. Laying violent hands on Confiscation of property; the Sovereign, whether injury imprisonment for not less than 30 results from it or not. years; and branding on each cheek with the mark of a gallows[15] if the prisoner is remarkably depraved. 2. Attacking the Sovereign Imprisonment 8 years, and not by speeches or writings. less than 5. 3. Persons conspiring and Confiscation of Property and taking up arms, or entering 30 years' imprisonment, with into alliance with an enemy, branding as above. &c. are guilty of _sedition and tumult_. * * * * * _Criminal Offences relative to the Sovereign and the State._ 4. He who enters the house Imprisonment, not less than or abode of another, and uses 1 month, nor more than 5 years, violence against his person, and condemnation to the public goods, or possession, is works. guilty of _open force_. 5. He who violently resists Imprisonment not less than the authority of a Judge, or 1 month, nor more than 5 years; Officer of Justice, although but where there is an injury and no wound result, is guilty of wounds, not exceeding 8 nor _open violence_. less than 5.