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
“14. To make ordinary cases of soliciting punishable summarily with a
fine of 10_l._, or with imprisonment for two months without the option
of a fine, or upon a second or subsequent conviction with a fine of
30_l._, or with imprisonment for six months without the option of a
fine.
“15. To extend to an amended form the provisions of the Children’s
Act, 1908, relating to persons having the custody of girls, and either
causing their seduction or not exercising due care, to the cases of
girls between the ages of sixteen and nineteen years.
“16. To strengthen the provisions of the Children’s Act, 1908, relating
to the punishment of parents and others who allow children and young
persons to reside in or frequent premises kept for immoral purposes;
and to extend those provisions to the protection of persons between the
ages of sixteen and nineteen.
“17. To enable a person who is convicted on indictment of--(_a_)
keeping premises for immoral purposes; or (_b_) living on a woman’s
immoral earnings, being a male; or (_c_) persistently soliciting, being
a male; or (_d_) selling indecent literature, etc., to be placed under
police supervision, notwithstanding that such person has not been
previously convicted of crime.
“18. To require courts to recommend for expulsion aliens over the age
of nineteen who are convicted of certain offences.
“19. To restrict the punishment for rape to penal servitude for not
more than ten years, except under certain aggravated circumstances,
when the maximum term is to be fifteen years.
“20. To restrict the punishment for offences under sections fifty-eight
and sixty-one of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, to penal
servitude for not more than ten years, and for offences under section
sixty-two of that Act to penal servitude for not more than seven years.
“21. To re-enact the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908; to extend its
range; and to make such other amendments as are required to render its
provisions consistent with the above proposals, the full offence to be
felony.
“22. To restrict the punishment of young offenders for any of the above
offences (including rape, incest, etc.) by providing--(_a_) that no
person under the age of twenty-one shall be liable to a longer term of
penal servitude than seven years, unless he is guilty of rape under
certain aggravated circumstances, in which case he is to be liable to
penal servitude for ten years; and (_b_) that no person under the age
of eighteen shall be liable to penal servitude.
“23. To render an indecent assault upon a person under the age of
nineteen years, cognizable summarily with the consent of the accused,
but to increase the maximum term of imprisonment which a court of
summary jurisdiction may, under those circumstances, inflict, to six
months. (_Cf._ a similar provision in the Children’s Act, 1908.)
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