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
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_Civil Offences that endanger the Life or Health of the Citizen._
43. _Misadventure_--where Imprisonment from 1 month
without any ill intention, by to a year, or condemnation to the
means of poisonous merchandize, public works, if the offender has
or apothecaries selling caused any immediate damage;
adulterated drugs, any person but if the cause of damage be
suffers danger or injury. remote, imprisonment from a day to
1 month.
44. Damage to man or child, Imprisonment from 1 day to
occasioned by riding or driving a month; to be augmented, in
carriages with too much speed; case death or wound should have
or injury received by persons resulted from the accident.
incapable of guarding against
danger, occasioning a wound or
death, which might have been
prevented by due vigilance.
45. Breaking Quarantine, &c. By a Military Court of
and fabricating false bills of Justice.
health.
46. Actions prejudicial to Condemnation to the public
health, or nuisance, where the works, with or without fetters;
necessary precautions prescribed either from 1 day to a month, or
by the laws of health are from 1 month to a year.
neglected in cases of dead
animals, distempers among
cattle, &c. &c.
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_Civil Offences that affect the Fortunes and Rights of Citizens._
47. Stealing to the value of Confinement, corporal correction,
25 crowns of any moveable, and the augmentation of
when not accompanied with the punishment if requisite.
aggravating circumstances:
_Stealing Wood in a
Forest--Poaching by an
unqualified person--Stealing
Fruit from Trees--or earth
from open Fields_--though
beyond the value of 25 crowns.
(See ante, No. 38, 39.)
48. Using Frauds in playing The pillory and condemnation
at Games allowed by Law. to the public works, in atrocious
cases; also imprisonment, from
1 day to a month, and
restitution.--In case of
foreigners, the pillory and
banishment.
49. _Accomplices_ Imprisonment from 1 day to a
co-operating in such Frauds. month.
50. _Playing at prohibited A fine of 300 ducats, or
Games._ imprisonment.
51. _Persons selling Imprisonment from 1 day to a
Merchandize_ at higher prices month, which may be augmented.
than fixed by the Police, or by
false weight or measure.
52. _Adultery._ Corporal correction, or
imprisonment from 1 day to a
month.
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