Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in Scotland: During the Years 1842[-1845], Volume 1Thomas Clark, 1844 - Criminal law |
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Page 357 - October 1828, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of...
Page 5 - ... and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or House of Correction, for any term not exceeding two years...
Page 330 - ... seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding three years ; and in Scotland any persons so offending shall be liable to be punished in like manner.
Page 4 - Geo. 4, c. 69, s. 1, enacts that "if any person shall, after the passing of this Act, by night unlawfully take or destroy any game or rabbits in any land, whether open or inclosed, or shall by night unlawfully enter or be in any land, whether open or inclosed, with any gun, net, engine, or other instrument, for the purpose of taking or destroying game...
Page 548 - ... or engine adapted and intended for the marking of coin round the edges with letters, grainings, or other marks or figures apparently resembling those on the edges of any...
Page 548 - Possession, any Press for Coinage, or any Cutting Engine for cutting by force of a Screw or of any other Contrivance, round Blanks out of Gold, Silver, or other Metal or Mixture of Metals, or any other Machine, knowing...
Page 535 - ... persons herein mentioned, or any person assisting such gamekeeper or servant, to seize and apprehend such offender upon such land ; or, in case of pursuit being made, in any other place to which he may have escaped therefrom, and to deliver him, as soon as may be, into the custody of a peace officer, in order to his being^ conveyed before two justices of the peace...
Page 330 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
Page 91 - furze, goss, or fern, upon pain that the offender or offenders, •' shall be committed to the house of correction for any time not " exceeding one month, and not less than ten days, there to be " whipped and kept to hard labour.
Page 5 - ... he shall be committed to the common gaol or house of correction for any period not exceeding six calendar...