1875' (38-9 Vict. c. 86), which deal with injuries to the public interest and otherwise, inflicted by unscrupulous breach of the service-contract, as well as with the offence of intimidation among workmen themselves. 1. Any person employed by any public body or contractor charged with the duty of supplying any place with gas or water, who wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service to the peril of such supply. Penalty £20; or, in the discretion of the court, 3 months' hard labour (secs. 4, 14). 2. A notice to the above effect must be kept conspicuously posted up at the gas or water-works. Penalty--£5 per day during default (ib.). 3. Any person who wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service, knowing, or having reason to know, that the probable consequence will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to damage or destruction. Penalty, same as 1 (sec. 5). 4. Any person who, with a view to compel another to abstain from doing anything which he has a right to do, or to do anything which he has a right to abstain from doing, (i) uses violence to, or intimidates such person, his wife or children, or injures his property; or (ii) persistently follows him about from place to place; or (iii) hides his tools, clothes, &c. ; or (iv) watches or besets his house or place ofemployment; or (v) follows him with two or more persons in a disorderly manner through any street, &c. Penalty, same as 1 (sec. 7). 5. An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do, or procure to be done, any act, in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen, shall not be indictable as a conspiracy, if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime' (sec. 3). See CONSPIRACY. Upon the hearing of any charge arising under 1 and 3, the respective parties to the contract, their husbands and wives, are competent witnesses (sec. 11). And any person charged before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction in respect of 1, 3, or 4 may elect to be indicted (sec. 9). Appeal, upon notice within 7 days. As regards the word 'maliciously,' see MALICIOUS INJURIES. NOTE to page 292. Under the 51 Geo. III. c. 37, the marriage of any person who has been found lunatic upon inquisition' is utterly null and void if contracted before he or she be formally certified to be of sound mind. Proof positive of the most absolute recovery would count for nothing; and the result would be as stated in our note on BIGAMY, page 102. The statute further declares that the marriage of any lunatic (not found so upon inquisition) shall be equally void if contracted before he or she shall be declared sane by the 'particular trustees' to whose care and custody he or she may have been committed by virtue of any Act of Parliament. But whether this provision extends to the détenus of a County Asylum, and whether our solicitude upon the occasion mentioned in the text may not have been superfluous, is a question upon which I desire to offer no opinion. My attention was only called to the point while these pages were passing through the press. INDEX. ABANDONING CHILD, 116, and see VAGRANTS (1, 16), 420 ABDUCTION OF WOMEN, 59 ABORTION, causing, &c., 60 ABSCONDING DEBTOR, see BANKRUPTCY, 93 ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, 60; no excuse for retaliatory violence, 85, 306 ACCESSORY to offence, see PRINCIPAL, &c., 348 ACCOMPLICE, see ACCESSORY, suprà. ACCOUNTS, falsification of, 166, 195 ACCUSING OF CRIME, 60, 413 ADJOURNMENT of hearing, 340 ADULTERATION of food or drugs, 61; of bread, 107; of seeds, 389; of drink, see INTOXICATING LIQUORS (17), 263 AFFRAY, fighting in public, 66 AGENTS, fraud by, 66 AGREEMENTS, law respecting, 67 AGRICULTURAL GANGS, 69; damaging agricultural machines, 294 (9) AIDING AND ABETTING, 39 (7), and see PRINCIPAL AND ACCESSORY, 348 ALIENS, 69 ANALYST, PUBLIC, 61 ANIMALS, cruelty to, 137; baiting, 329; drugging, 153; stealing tame animals, 273, 277; killing or wounding same, 294; stealing horses, cattle, sheep, &c., 278; killing or wounding same, 295. See also BIRDS, 103; CATTLE-STRAYING, 110; CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, 130; Dogs, 144; and VIVISECTION, 422. As regards wild animals, see GAME, 198 APPEAL, generally, 70; conditions of appeal-evidence on appeal, 72; stating case for Superior Court, 72; certiorari, 74; mandamus 75; hearing of appeals, 50 APPRENTICES, 77; enlisting, 78 U ARMY DISCIPLINE ACT, see SOLDIER, 390 ARREST, 79 ARSENIC, rules as to sale of, 82 ARSON, 83 ASSAULT, generally, 84; summary jurisdiction in cases of assault, 87; ATTEMPTING to commit offences, generally, 89; attempting to shoot, BAGATELLE and billiards, 102 BAIL, discretionary and compulsory, 90; bail from police stations, 128 BAKERS, see BREAD, 106 BANKRUPTCY AND FRAUDULENT DEBTORS, 93 BASTARDY, procedure in, 94; evidence, 97; enforcing order, 98; appeal, BEER HOUSES, see INTOXICATING LIQUOR, 246, 247, &c. BEGGARS, see VAGRANTS (5, 13), 420 BETTING AND BETTING-HOUSES, see GAMING, 209. See also LOTTERIES, BICYCLES, 100 BIGAMY, 101; a young French bigamist, ib. BILLETING, see SOLDIER, 394 BILLIARDS and bagatelle, 102 BIRCH ROD, punishment for boys, 113; escape of grocer's boy 54; on BIRD'S PROTECTION, 103 BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION, 105 BLASPHEMY, 106; profane language, 328; profane swearing, 409 BODILY HARM, see ASSAULT (5, 8, 9, &c.), 88 BONFIRES, see FIREWORKS, 192 and 328 BOROUGHS. Borough Justices, 266; concurrent jurisdiction of county BREAD AND BAKERS, 106 BREAKING AND ENTERING, defined, 231 BRIDGES, 227; injuring, 295 (15) BROTHELS, see DISORDERLY HOUSES, 143, and 262 (10, 11) BURGLARY, see HOUSEBREAKING, 232; right to kill the burglar, 233, 305 BURNING, see ARSON, 83, and ASSAULT (12), 88 CANAL-BOATS, 108 CARD-SHARPERS, see Vagrants (17), 421; cheating at play, 210 CARTS, see TAXED CARTS, 410; using without name painted thereon, CASE, stating for Superior Court, 72, 74 'CAT,' in prisons, 350 CATTLE, see ANIMALS, supra CATTLE PLAGUE, 132 CATTLE STRAYING, 110 CELLARS, living in, see PUBLIC HEALTH, 360 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, 299 CERTIFICATE OF DISMISSAL, 15; effect of, in assault cases, 86 CERTIORARI, see APPEAL, 74 CHAIRMAN of Petty Sessional Court, 5 CHALLENGE TO FIGHT, see AFFRAY, 66, SURETIES, &c., 409; resenting a CHARACTER, evidence of previous good or bad, in summary proceedings, CHEATING, see False Pretences, 185; at play, 210 CHILDREN, indictable offences by, dealt with under the Summary CHILDREN'S DANGEROUS PERFORMANCES ACT, 117 CHIMNEY SWEEPS, 117 CHLOROFORM, criminal administration of, 118 CHURCH, misbehaviour in, &c., 118; feloniously breaking and CHURCHWARDENS, 119 CITY OF LONDON, city justices, &c., see METROPOLIS, 299 CIVIL DEBTS, 44 CLAIM OF RIGHT, as an ouster of summary jurisdiction, see PRACTICE (13), 344 |