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Privilegium clericale

Privilegium clericale, the benefit of clergy, which is abolished by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 23. See BENEFIT OF CLERGY.

Shop-Lifting Act

by which stealing goods to the value of five shillings was a capital felony, repealed in 1826 by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27.

Noctanter

which issued out of Chancery, and returned to the King's Bench, for the prostration of in closures, etc., 7 & 8 Geo.4, c. 27.

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Land-tax

& 63 Vict. c. 25), to constitute the persons therein named Land Tax Commissioners, at first expressly by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 75, an Act which contained 300 pages, and afterwards by reference to a

Fugam fecit

is found by inquisition to have fled for felony, etc., upon which forfeiture of goods took place. Obsolete, 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28, s. 5; and see 33 & 34 Vict. c. 23.

Fly for it

having been long discontinued, was generally abolished by the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), s. 5. There is a saying, Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit (3 Inst. 14)-'He who flies

T

time marked with this letter upon the brawn of the thumb. The practice is abolished-7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27. See BENEFIT OF CLERGY.

Excise

entrusted to special commissioners [ss to whom see the (English) Excise Management Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 53)], was, in 1849, by 12 Vict. c. 1, transferred to the Board of Inland Revenue, and … sale, or use of goods (such as a cigarette tax) or on occupation or actively, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 585. Consult Bell and Dwelly's Excise Acts, published in 1873; Halsbury's Laws of England, tit. 'Revenue';

Black Act

Epping Forest, near Waltham, in Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed divers other enormities. Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27.

Benefit of clergy

Hen. 8, c. 15), s. 3), and finally the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), s. 6, abolished benefit of clergy altogether, See 2 Hale's Hist. 323; Jac. Law Dict.

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