Anomalies of the English lawChester, S. Beach (Samuel Beach)
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Anomalies of the English law
Chester, S. Beach (Samuel Beach)
Law; Law -- Great Britain -- History
(_b_) knowingly and wilfully makes, or knowingly and wilfully
causes to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any
register of marriage, a false statement as to any particular
required by law to be known and registered relating to any
marriage.
(_c_) forbids the issue of any certificate, or license for marriage
by falsely representing himself to be a person whose
consent to the marriage is required by law, knowing such
representation to be false,
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and on conviction thereof
on indictment shall be liable to penal servitude for a term not
exceeding seven years or to imprisonment, with or without hard
labour, for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both
such penal servitude or imprisonment and fine.
(2) No prosecution for knowingly and wilfully making a false
declaration for the purpose of procuring any marriage out of the
district in which the parties or one of them dwell shall take place
after the expiration of months from the solemnization of the
marriage to which the declaration refers.
=4.= (1) If any person--
(_a_) wilfully makes any false answer to any question put to him by
any registrar of births or deaths relating to the particulars
required to be registered concerning any birth or death, or
wilfully gives to any such registrar any false information
concerning any birth or death or the cause of death, or
(_b_) wilfully makes any false certificate or declaration under
or for the purposes of any Act relating to the registration
of births or deaths, or knowing any such certificate or
declaration to be false, uses the same as true or gives or
sends the same as true to any person, or
(_c_) wilfully makes, gives or uses any false statement or
declaration as to a child born alive as having been
still-born, or as to the body of a deceased person or a
still-born child in any coffin, or falsely pretends that any
child born alive was still-born, or
(_d_) makes any false statement with intent to have the same
inserted in any register of births or deaths:
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable--
(i) on conviction thereof on indictment to penal servitude for a
term not exceeding seven years, or to imprisonment with or
without hard labour for a term not exceeding two years, or to
a fine instead of either of the said punishments; and
(ii) on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding ten
pounds:
(2) A prosecution on indictment for an offence against this section
shall not be commenced more than three years after the commission of
the offence.
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