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
27. Suicide or self-murder, The body to be thrown into
without any sign of insanity. the earth by the executioner, and
the name of the person and crime
to be publicly notified and fixed
on a gallows.
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_Criminal Offences against Honour and Liberty._
28. _Calumny_--false Imprisonment not less than 1
accusation--injuring a man of month, nor more than 5 years,
his right, or robbing him of his and condemnation to the public
good name unjustly and without works; with corporal punishment
proof (See post. No. 56.) if the party receive injury.
29. _Rape_,--or forcibly, Imprisonment not less than 3
by associates, threatnings, or years, nor more than 12, and
shewing weapons, overpowering condemnation to the public works.
and forcing a woman to submit,
and shamefully abusing her by
rendering her incapable of
opposition.
30. Accomplices aiding in the Imprisonment not less than 5,
commission of a rape. nor more than 8 years; and
condemnation to the public works.
31. _Forcibly carrying a Imprisonment not less than 15
person out of the State_ years, nor more than 30 years;
without his will, or the augmented if the criminal is a
consent of the Magistrate, natural-born subject.
enlisting men into foreign
service, &c.
32. _Forcibly, or by Imprisonment not less than 1
address, secretly carrying month, nor more than 5 years; if
away a Minor_ past the years no injury result--otherwise
of infancy, under the care of imprisonment, not less than 8, nor
parents or guardians, &c. more than 12 years, and
condemnation to the public works.
33. _Forcibly, and by Imprisonment not less than 5
address, getting possession of years, and not more than 8; and
any woman_ contrary to her condemnation to the public
will, obtaining her consent to works.
marriage, or shameful
debauchery, and carrying her
from her abode; whether
the design is accomplished or
not.
34. _Forcibly carrying away Imprisonment not less than 1
a woman known to be bound by month, nor more than 5 years,
lawful marriage_, or under and condemnation to the public
protection of parents, and works.
without her consent.
35. Accomplices aiding and The same.
assisting.
36. _Unlawful Imprisonment_, Imprisonment not less than 1
or keeping a person in month, nor more than 5 years;
confinement against his will augmented in cases of damages.
and of his own private
authority.
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