A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
6. Breach of trust, in a Imprisonment not less than 8,
Governor, or Chargé des nor more than 12 years, and
Affaires; neglecting the condemnation to the public works,
interest of the State, or and in aggravated cases, the
betraying his Country, &c. pillory.[16]
7. A Judge, who from Imprisonment not less than 8, nor
corruption or passion is more than 12 years, and
guilty of an _abuse of condemnation to the public works,
judicial authority_. and in aggravated cases, the
pillory.
8. Accomplices attempting Imprisonment not less than 1
to corrupt a Judge. month, nor more than 5 years; and
condemnation to the public works.
9. Forgery, by attempting to Imprisonment not less than
counterfeit public bills of 30 years, and branding with a
the State which circulate as hot iron.
money.
10. Falsifying a public bill, Imprisonment not less than 12,
by changing or altering it, nor more than 15 years, and
or imitating the signatures. condemnation to the public works.
11. Coining false money, Imprisonment not less than 1
resembling the Coin of the month, nor more than 5 years,
Hereditary Dominions, or with condemnation to the public
foreign Coin current by law; works.
even though of equal weight
and quality, or superior to
the current Coin.
12. Coining false money, by Imprisonment not less than 12,
using a bad alloy; and by nor more than 15 years, and
fraud giving false money the condemnation to the public works.
quality of good.
13. Accomplices in Imprisonment not less than 8,
fabricating tools for nor more than 12 years, and
Coining. condemnation to the public works.
14. Assisting in the escape Imprisonment not less than 1
of a prisoner. month, nor more than 5 years; and
condemnation to the public works.
15. Magistrates granting Imprisonment not less than 12,
indulgencies contrary to nor more than 15 years; and
law, &c. deprivation of authority.
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_Criminal Offences against Human Life and Bodily Safety._
16. _Murder_,--by Imprisonment not less than 15,
wounding a man so that death nor more than 30 years; the latter
ensues, including all in cases of consanguinity.[17]
accomplices.
17. Killing a man in Imprisonment not less than 1
self-defence, if the slayer month, nor more than 5 years, and
exceed the bounds of condemnation to the public works.
necessity.
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