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TABLE OF CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
BOOK I.
OF PERSONS CAPABLE OF COMMITTING CRIMES, OF PRINCIPALS AND ACCESSORIES, AND OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES.
OF OFFENCES PRINCIPALLY AFFECTING THE GOVERNMENT, THE PUBLIC PEACE, OR THE PUBLIC
RIGHTS.
CHAP.
PAGE
I. Of counterfeiting or impairing Coin. Of importing into the Kingdom
Counterfeit or Light Money, and of exporting Counterfeit Money
94
II. Of Frauds relating to Bullion, and of counterfeiting Bullion
IV. Of uttering, tendering, &c., Counterfeit Coin
111
III. Of the making, mending, or having in possession, any Instruments for
Coining
112
119
V. Of buying, selling, receiving, or paying for Counterfeit Coin at a lower
rate than its denomination imports
134
VI. Of serving, or procuring others to serve, Foreign States
VII. Of seducing Soldiers and Sailors to Desert or Mutiny
136
141
VIII. Of Piracy
144
IX. Of neglecting Quarantine, and of spreading contagious Disorders, and
of Injury to the Public Health
165
XVII. Of neglecting or delaying to deliver Election Writs
XI. Of hindering the exportation of Corn, or preventing its circulation
XVI. Of Bribery.
XVIII. Of dealing in Slaves
XIX. Of Forestalling, Regrating, and Ingrossing, and of Monopolies
XX. Of Maintenance and Champerty, and of buying and selling pretended
Titles
XXI. Of Embracery, and dissuading a Witness from giving Evidence
XXII. Of Barratry, and of suing in the Name of a fictitious Plaintiff.
X. Of Offences against the Revenue Laws relating to the Customs or Excise
172
183
186
194
200
214
223
241
243
252
254
264
266
268
321
378
406
413
415
421
XXX. Of Nuisances
XXXI. Of obstructing Process, and of Disobedience to Orders of Magistrate
XXXII. Of Escapes
XXXIII. Of Prison-breaking by the Party confined
XXXIV. Of Rescue; and of actively aiding in an Escape, or in an Attempt to
Escape
XXXV. of returning, or being at large after Sentence of Transportation; and
of rescuing or aiding the Escape of a Person under such Sentence
XXXVI. Of Gaming.
XXXVII. Of Offences relating to Dead Bodies
XXXVIII. Of going armed in the Night-time for the Destruction of Game, and of
assaulting Game-keepers
435
569
581
592
597
607
624
629
639
IV. Of destroying Infants in the Mother's Womb
899
V. Of Rape, and the unlawful Carnal Knowledge of Female Children, and pro-
curing the Defilement of Girls under Age
904
VI. Of Sodomy
937
VII. Of the forcible Abduction and unlawful taking away of Females, and of
Clandestine Marriages
940
VIII. Of Kidnapping and Child-stealing
962
IX. Of Conspiracies and Attempts to Murder, of Mayhem or Maiming, and of
doing or attempting some great bodily Harm
967
X. Of Common Aggravated Assaults
1019
XI. Of Maiming, &c., by the furious driving, &c., of Stage-Coachmen
1051
XII. Of Setting Spring Guns, &c.
XIII. Of Offences relating to Railways and Railway Trains.