A Treatise on Criminal Law as Applicable to the Dominion of Canada

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R. Carswell, 1872 - Criminal law - 717 pages

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Page 115 - ... employed in the service of any foreign prince, state, or potentate, or of any foreign colony, province, or part of any province or people...
Page 399 - A conspiracy consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.
Page 251 - ... in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased ; and it shall be sufficient in any indictment for manslaughter to charge that the defendant did feloniously kill and slay the deceased...
Page 290 - That the Distinction between Grand Larceny and Petty Larceny shall be abolished, and every Larceny, whatever be the Value of the Property stolen, shall be deemed to be of the same Nature, and shall be subject to the same Incidents in all respects as Grand Larceny was before the Commencement of this Act...
Page 292 - The result of these authorities is that the rule of law on this subject seems to be that if a man finds goods that have been actually lost, or are reasonably supposed by him to have been lost, and appropriates them, with intent to take the entire dominion over them, really believing, when he takes them, that the owner can not be found, it is not larceny.
Page 174 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or In reference to which he had a duty to perform, is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable.
Page 329 - ... to be of money, without specifying any particular coin or valuable security; and such allegation, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be sustained, if the offender shall be proved to have embezzled any amount, although the particular species of coin or valuable security of which such amount was composed shall not be proved...
Page 212 - ... must be an animus dedicandi, of which the user by the public is evidence, and no more; and a single act of interruption by the owner is of much more weight, upon a question of intention, than many acts of enjoyment.
Page 260 - There Is a marked distinction between an act done for the purpose of protecting the property by preventing a felony or of recovering It back and an act done for the purpose of punishing the offender for that which has already been done.
Page 180 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.

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