PIRACY-continued. piracy under an enemy's commission, 261. persons convicted under, when not triable for high treason, 261 n. attempting to corrupt the crew, &c., or putting force upon the commander, forcibly entering merchants' ships, and destroying goods, 262. trading with pirates, furnishing them with ammunition, &c., 262. 1 Vict. c. 88, s. 2, piracy where murder attempted, 262. sec. 3, in other cases, 263. sec. 4, of accessories, 263. sec. 5, offences punishable by imprisonment, 263. cases of piracy, 264. case on 11 & 12 Will. 3, making a revolt in a ship, 264. when justifiable, 265. an endeavour to make a revolt, 265. who are mariners and seamen, 265. adhering to the king's enemies, 265. of accessories, 267. declared principals by the 8 Geo. 1, 268. receiving and abetting a pirate within a county, 268. PLAGUE, persons affected with, going abroad and affecting others, 272. PLATE. See BULLION. PLAY, players indictable as an unlawful assembly and riot, 555 n. PLEAS, pleas in abatement, 38. dilatory plea of a misnomer, 38. autrefois acquit and convict, 38. in burglary, 39. for same offence, 40. different reign, 42. larceny and false pretences, 42. murder and manslaughter, 42–45. administering poison, 44. acquittal on coroner's inquisition, 45. concealment of birth, 45. assault, 45. on indictment unamended, 45. against prisoners and others, 46. larceny of fixtures, 47. railway offences, 47. perjury, 47 insolvent debtor, 47. burglary, after acquittal for murder, 47. as accessory after acquittal as principal, 48. several chattels stolen, previous acquittal as to one, 48. where first indictment bad, 48. two indictments in same form, different facts, 49. PLURALITIES ACT, perjury at inquiries under, 298. POACHING. See GAME. unlawful assembly, 571. POISON, indictment for administering after acquittal for murder, 44. administered with intent to cause sickness not indictable at common law, laid by several, and taken in the absence of all, all are principals in the POLICE COMMISSIONER, POLICE SUPERVISION, 69. assaults on, costs, 95. POSSE COMITATUS, neglecting to join, 257. POSSESSION, of coin, 234. definition of, 208. of coining-instruments, 226. of housebreaking implements, 199. POST, property sent by, how laid, 36. POST MORTEM, costs of, 101 n. POSTPONING TRIAL, 50. costs of, 103. POUNDBREACH, whether indictable, 882, 883. PRAYER BOOK, ridiculing, 613. PREACHER, disturbing, 653. PREGNANCY, he who counsels to murder the child is accessory to the murder, 175. conspiring to procure abortion, 492. PRESCRIPTION, liability to repair highway by, 799. PRESENCE, how far necessary to abettor in crime, 163, 165. PRESUMPTION, in favour of valid marriage, 694. PRETENDED TITLES, sale of, 477, 485. PREVIOUS CONVICTION, punishment, &c., 66-73. larceny after conviction for felony, 66. larceny after conviction for misdemeanor, 67. larceny after two summary convictions, 67. form of indictment for, 68. conduct of trial for, 68. under Prevention of Crimes Act, 69. police supervision, 69. under the 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28, s. 11, 70. more than one charged, 70. form of certificate, 71. proof of identity, 71. proof of, in answer to good character, 72. special offences by persons twice convicted, 77. provision as to children of woman twice convicted, 79. in coining cases, 235. in night-poaching cases, 950. PRINCIPAL. See ACCESSORY. indictment as after acquittal as accessory, 48. in the first degree, 161. in the second degree, 161. punishment of, 84. termed aider and abettor, 161. sometimes accomplice, 161. formerly considered accessory at the fact, 161. and not triable till principal convicted, 161. must be charged with being present, aiding, and abetting, 162. there must be some participation, 162. assisting a servant, knowledge of authority, 163. all present principals though one only acts, 164. must be near enough to assist, 163. throwing goods out of window to an accomplice, 164. by means of an innocent agent, 165, 166. in a crime done in prosecution of some unlawful purpose by several, 167. indictment against, 169. the same person may be a principal and an accessory in the same felony, 170. a man cannot be indicted as, after an acquittal as accessory before the PRINTERS, liabilities of, 636, et seq. PRISON-BREAKING. See also RESCUE and ESCAPE. definition of, 899. felony at common law, 899. by the 1 Edw. 2, st. 2, 899. what is a prison within the Act, 899. of the regularity of the imprisonment, 899. of the nature of the crime for which the party was imprisoned, 900. of the nature of the breaking, 901. escape of the party, 902. proceedings for, 902. indictment, evidence, and punishment, 902. where the party breaking prison is a convicted felon, 902, 903. by convicts sentenced to penal servitude, 914, et seq. PRISONER, sentence on, 85. money found upon, 89. PRIVATE INJURIES, not indictable, 195. PRIVATE PERSONS, libels on, 626. suppression of affrays by, 589. as to their right to enter with force when they have legal title, 717. PRIZE FIGHTING, when an unlawful assembly, 570. PROCESS. See ARREST. obstructing process, 880, et seq. See LIBel. opposing arrest upon criminal process, 880. giving assistance to persons pursued on suspicion of felony, 880. as to the lawfulness of the arrest, 881. by rescue of the party arrested, 882. See RESCUE. by rescuing goods distrained, poundbreach, 882. PUBLIC PLACE, what is, 748, 749, 754. PUBLIC WORSHIP, disturbance of, 652, et seq. See DISTURBANCE. PUNISHMENT. See THE TITLES OF THE RESPECTIVE OFFENCES. fine, 66, 84, 217. sureties to keep peace, 66, 84, 217. imprisonment, 64, 70 n. hard labour, 81, 218. solitary confinement, 66, 82, 218, Add. police supervision, 69. whipping, 66, 70, 83. penal servitude, 73, 79. transportation, 65. pillory, 66, 321. of felonies not punishable by any statute except 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28, 66. of principals in second degree, 84. of accessories, 84. Q. QUAKERS, affirmations by, 324. libel by society of, 611. marriages of, 674, 675, 681, 685, 687. QUARANTINE, neglecting, 269. 26 Geo. 2, c. 6, 269. disobedience to order of council under, indictable, 269. penalty on masters and others quitting vessels or permitting penalty on officers and others embezzling the goods performing publication of orders in council in London Gazette sufficient evidence of the place from which vessel came, &c., 271. of having been directed to perform quarantine, 271. indictment for attempt to commit, need not negative the commission, 196. plea of autrefois acquit, 46. restitution of property, 86. whether principal in larceny, 165. punished more severely than larceny, 174. indictment need not state name of thief, 186. RECOGNISANCE, under Vexatious Indictments Act, 2. of married woman, 66 n. to keep the peace in felony, 84. in misdemeanor, 84. to come up for judgment, 85. RECORDING JUDGMENT, 64. omitting to register birth, 200. statutes, &c., on the subject repealed, 476. REIGNS, offences in different, 41. RELIGION, libels on, 614–617. RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLIES, contemptuously, &c., disquieting or disturbing, 652, et seq. |