manufacturing-cutting breaking damaging or destroying,
commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with
intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Cotton, warp or shute of, cutting breaking damaging or destroy-
ing, commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force,
with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Cotton and woollen mills: offending against the regulations
created by statute for such mills, information, 144; convic-
tion, 144; warrant of distress, &c. 145.
Counterfeiting. See "Coin."
Counting-house, stealing in, after breaking and entering the
same, commitment for, 25.
Coursing, hunting, snaring or carrying away deer, in inclosed
places, commitment for, 30. The like in uninclosed places,
(second offence), commitment for, 30.
Cow, ox, or heifer, stealing, commitment for, 29. Killing a
cow, ox, or heifer, with intent to steal the carcase, &c.,
commitment for, 30.
Customs: Jurisdiction of justices in matters relating to them,
145. Time limited for prosecutions, 146. Mode of pro-
ceeding for penalties, 146-149; mitigation of penalties,
148; to whom the penalties shall be paid, 149. Mode of
proceeding for forfeitures, 149. Evidence, witnesses, &c.,
149, 150.
In what cases the defendant may be sent to serve
in the navy, 150-152. Form of informations, convictions,
&c. 152: form of information before justices of the peace,
where the party charged is a subject of his Majesty, and a
pecuniary penalty is inflicted, 153; conviction in such case,
153; commitment to gaol for the penalty, 153; warrant of
distress, 153: form of information, where the party charg-
ed is a seaman or seafaring man, and fit and able to serve
his Majesty in his naval service, 155; conviction in such
case, 155; commitment to serve in the navy, 156: form
of information, where the party charged is not a subject of
his Majesty, 156; conviction in such a case, 157; commit-
ment to gaol, 157: form of an information against an officer
of the customs, 158; conviction and commitment in such
case, 158.
Cutting silk, woollen, linen, or cotton goods in the loom, &c.,
commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with
intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Cutting any warp or shute of silk, woollen, linen, or cotton,
commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with
intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Cutting any loom, engine, implement, &c., employed in prepar-
ing or manufacturing silk, woollen, linen, or cotton goods,
commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with
intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Cutting glass or wood work belonging to a building, or lead,
iron, copper, brass, or other metal, or any utensil or fixture,
fixed to a building, with intent to steal the same, commit-
ment for, 36.
Cutting metal fixed in land which is private property, with in-
tent to steal it, commitment for, 36.
Cutting metal, fixed for a fence to a dwelling-house, garden cr
area, with intent to steal it, commitment for, 36, 37.
Cutting metal fixed in a square, street or place, dedicated to pub-
lic use or ornament, with intent to steal it, commitment for,
37.
Cutting trees, saplings, shrubs or underwood, with intent to
steal them, if growing in parks, pleasure-grounds, &c. com-
mitment for, 33: if growing elsewhere, commitment for,
34: where the injury done amounts to 1s., conviction, 251;
conviction for a second offence, 252; third offence, commit-
ment for, 34. Cutting them maliciously, if growing in plea-
sure-grounds, &c. commitment for, 53: if growing else-
where, commitment for, 53: where the injury done amounts
to 1s., conviction, 267, 268; conviction for a second offence,
268; third offence, commitment for, 53.
Cutting hopbinds, commitment for, 52.
Cutting off piles, &c. fixed in the ground, for securing river or
sea banks, commitment for, 49.
Cutting down sea banks, river, canal, or marsh banks, and
thereby overflowing lands, commitment for, 48.
Cutting threshing or other machines or engines, commitment
for, 44.
Dam of a fish-pond, breaking down or destroying, commitment
for, 51.
Dam of a mill-pond, breaking down or destroying, commitment
for, 51.
Damage, maliciously doing, to property, in cases not particularly
provided for by stat. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 30, conviction, 275.
Damaging or destroying silk, woollen, linen or cotton goods in
the loom, &c. commitment for, 43. Entering any building
by force, with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Damaging or destroying any warp or shute of silk, woollen,
linen or cotton, commitment for, 43. Entering any build-
ing by force, with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Damaging or destroying any loom, engine, implement, &c. em-
ployed in preparing or manufacturing silk, woollen, linen
or cotton goods, commitment for, 43. Entering any build-
ing by force, with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Damaging or destroying threshing or other machines or engines,
commitment for, 44.
Damaging or destroying trees, saplings, shrubs, or underwood,
growing in parks, pleasure-grounds, &c. with intent to steal
them, commitment for, 33; the like, if growing elsewhere,
commitment for, 34: the like, doing injury to the amount of
1s., conviction, 251; conviction for a second offence, 252;
third offence, commitment for, 34. Damaging or destroy-
ing them maliciously, if growing in parks, pleasure-grounds,
&c. commitment for, 53: if growing elsewhere, commitment
for, 53: where the injury done amounts to 1s., conviction,
267, 268; conviction for a second offence, 268; third of-
fence, commitment for, 53.
Damaging or destroying plants, roots, fruits or vegetable produc-
tions, growing in gardens, orchards, nursery grounds, hot-
house, greenhouse or conservatory, with intent to steal the
same, conviction, 259; second offence, commitment for, 35.
Destroying or damaging them maliciously, conviction, 269,
270; second offence, commitment for, 54.
Damaging or destroying steam engines or other engines, staiths,
waggon ways, &c. used for mines, commitment for, 45.
Damaging a ship, otherwise than by fire, with intent to destroy
it, commitment for, 47.
Dead body, disinterring, commitment for, 89.
Deer, coursing, hunting, snaring or carrying away in inclosed
places, commitment for, 30. The like, in the uninclosed
part of a forest, &c. conviction, 235; second offence, com-
mitment for, 30. Suspected persons in possession of ve-
nison, &c. and not satisfactorily accounting for it: search
warrant, 236; summons for persons through whose hands
it may have passed, 237; conviction thereupon, 238. Set-
ting snares, &c. to take deer, 239; conviction, 239. De-
stroying the fences of land where deer are usually kept,
240; conviction, 240.
Deer-keepers, beating or wounding, in the execution of their
duty, commitment for, 30.
Deliverance, warrant of, in what cases, 17; form of it, 17.
Demanding money, &c. with menaces or by force, with intent to
steal the same, commitment for, 21. Sending a letter to
that effect, commitment for, 21.
Demolishing, riotously, a church, chapel, house, or machinery,
&c. commitment for, 46.
Depositions of witnesses, to be taken, before a prisoner is bailed
or committed for felony, 8, 9, or misdemeanor, 8, 9. Form
of the deposition, 9. These depositions to be transmitted
to the assizes or sessions, 13, 14, 8.
Destroying. See "Damaging or destroying."
Destroying a bridge, commitment for, 50.
Destroying, riotously, a church, chapel, house, or machinery, &c.
commitment. for, 46.
Destroying the dam of a fish-pond, &c. commitment for, 51; the
dam of a mill-pond, commitment for, 51.
Destroying fish, in water adjoining or belonging to a dwelling-
house, commitment for, 31.
Destroying hopbinds, commitment for, 52.
Destroying locks, sluices, &c. on navigable rivers or canals,
Destroying a record, &c. commitment for, 28.
Destroying a ship, commitment for, 46. The like, to prejudice
the owners or underwriters, commitment for, 46. De-
stroying any part of a ship in distress or wrecked, or the
goods belonging to it, commitment for, 48.
Destroying turnpike-gates, rails, posts, toll-houses, &c. commit-
ment for, 50.
Destroying a will or codicil, commitment for, 28.
Discharge of prisoner, upon bail being taken, 17; warrant of
deliverance in such case, 17.
Disinterring dead bodies, commitment for, 89.
Dissenters, disturbing a congregation of, commitment for, 90.
Distress:
1. Removing goods to avoid a distress, complaint, 158; sum-
mons, 159; conviction, 159.
2. Taking more costs than allowed for distraining: order in
favour of complainant, 160; warrant of distress, &c.
161 order in favour of the party complained against,
161.
Distress, upon a conviction, warrant of, in what case, 353; form
of it, 354. Constable's return thereto, 355. Commitment
for want of distress, 355.
Disturbing a congregation of dissenters during divine service,
commitment for, 90.
Dock, adjoining to a port or navigable river, stealing from,
commitment for, 27.
Dog, keeping, to kill game. See "Game."
Dogs, stealing, conviction, 243; conviction for a subsequent of-
fence, 244. Persons in possession of stolen dogs or the
skins thereof, knowing them to be stolen, conviction, 245;
conviction for a subsequent offence, 245.
Dragging on the ground of another's oyster fishery, commitment
for, 32.
Drains of a mine, filling up or obstructing, commitment for, 45.
Drawing up floodgates, or doing other injury to navigable rivers
or canals, commitment for, 49,
Drawing up piles, &c. fixed in the ground, for securing river or
sea banks, commitment for, 49.
Dredging for oysters, in the oyster fishery of another, commit-
ment for, 32.
Stage Coaches."
Drowning. See "Murder."
Drowning a mine, commitment for, 45.
Drunkenness: conviction, on view of the justice, 161; convic-
tion on the testimony of witnesses, 162; warrant of dis-
tress, &c. 162.
Duties of a justice of peace, with respect to offences punishable
upon summary conviction, &c. 1, 93, &c. with respect to
indictable offences, 1, 3, &c.
Dwelling-house, stealing in, some person therein being put in
fear, commitment for, 24. Stealing in, to the value of 5l.,
commitment for, 25. Stealing in a building within the
same curtilage with a dwelling-house, but not privileged as
part thereof, after breaking and entering the same, com-
mitment for, 25.
Embezzlement by clerks or servants, commitment for, 38.
Embezzling the King's stores, commitment for, 77.
Engine, for preparing or manufacturing silk, woollen, linen or
cotton goods, cutting breaking damaging or destroying,
commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with
intent to do so, commitment for, 44.
Engines used for mines, pulling down, destroying or damaging,
commitment for, 45; riotously doing so, commitment for, 46.
Engrossing, commitment for, 86.
Entering a house, shop, building or place, with intent to damage
or destroy any warp or shute of silk, woollen, linen or cot-
ton, or any loom, engine, implement, &c. for preparing
or manufacturing silk, woollen, linen or cotton goods, com-
mitment for, 44.
Escape, commitment of a constable permitting it, 78. Commit-
ment of the party escaping, and those aiding him, 78.
Conveying files, &c. to a prisoner, to enable him to escape,
commitment for, 79.
Evidence may be received for the prisoner by the justice at the
time of the examination, 15.
Examination of prisoner in cases of felony, 8, 9; in cases of
misdemeanor, 8. How, 11. Form of it, 11, Evidence
may be received for the prisoner by the justice, at the time
of the examination, 15. This examination to be trans-
mitted to the Assizes or Sessions, 13, 14, 8. Attorney not
entitled as of right to be present at such examination as ad-
vocate for the prisoner, 14.
Examination, further, remanding a prisoner for, 9. Form of
commitment for, 10.
Excise: Jurisdiction of justices in matters relating to the excise,
162-165. Search warrant, 165.
Time limited for pro-
secutions, 166. Mode of proceeding, 166–171. Evidence,
171-173; witnesses, 173, 174. Appeal, 174-177; no
certiorari, 177. Warrant of distress, &c. 177-181. Distri-
bution of penalties, 181. Complaints as to overcharge, 181.
Forms of informations, convictions, &c. see 182.
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