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
“6. To make the offences specified in subsections (1) and (2) of
section three of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (_viz._,
procuration by threats or false pretences, etc.), felonies for which
the maximum punishment is to be penal servitude for five or ten years,
according to the age of the girl; and to make an attempt to procure by
false pretences a misdemeanour for which the maximum punishment is to
be imprisonment for two years.
“7. To make the offence specified in subsection (3) of section three
of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (_viz._, the administration of
drugs for an immoral purpose) felony for which the maximum punishment
is to be penal servitude for ten years.
“8. To make the offences specified in sections six, seven and eight
of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (_viz._, the offences of
permitting defilement on premises, of abduction for an immoral purpose,
and the unlawful detention for such purpose) felonies for which the
maximum punishment is to be penal servitude for five or ten years,
according to the age of the girl.
“9. To make an offence under section eleven of the Criminal Law
Amendment Act, 1885--(_a_) when committed with a boy under the age of
sixteen years, felony for which the maximum punishment is to be penal
servitude for ten years; (_b_) when committed with a person over that
age, felony punishable with penal servitude for five years.
“10. To make the keeping of premises for immoral purposes a
misdemeanour punishable summarily with a fine of 50_l._ and
imprisonment for six months, or upon conviction on indictment with a
fine of 200_l._ and imprisonment for two years.
“11. To make further provision for the suppression of indecent,
immoral, and grossly offensive literature, pictures, advertisements,
etc., the offence to be a misdemeanour punishable upon summary
conviction with a fine of 50_l._ and imprisonment for six months, or
upon conviction on indictment with a fine of 100_l._ and imprisonment
for twelve months. Further powers are given to the Postmaster-General.
“12. To make it a misdemeanour punishable upon summary conviction
with imprisonment for six months, or upon conviction on indictment
with imprisonment for twelve months, for any male person knowingly to
live upon the immoral earnings of a woman or girl; and to make it a
misdemeanour punishable upon summary conviction with imprisonment for
six months for any woman to do so. (The expression ‘immoral earnings’
is defined to mean the earnings of prostitution or of habitual
immorality.)
“13. To make it a misdemeanour punishable summarily with imprisonment
for six months, or upon conviction on indictment with imprisonment for
twelve months, for a male person to solicit persistently for an immoral
purpose in a street or public place.
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