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Capital offences
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Capital offences (Scotland)
Matched in: Term Capital offences (Scotland)
Sedition
Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter Sessions. See the (English) Unlawful Assemblies Act, … Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter
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Murder
death is caused is done with the intention of causing death (See Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 300) Capital Punishment.--'Every person convicted of murder shall suffer death as a felon.'--(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24
Rape
carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will was for a long period punished as a capital crime in the country; but it is now provided (see s. 48 of the Offences against the Person
Age
age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of the age of 14 might be capitally punished for any capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the … and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be
Abortion
be with child or not. Earlier Acts (see, e.g., 43 Geo. 3, c. 59) made the offence a capital felony, but applied only in case of the woman being quick with child. A woman can be convicted … premature expulsion of the contents of the womb before the term of gestation is completed. By the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 100), s. 58, the unlawful administration of drugs
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act
certain cases, contains numerous forms of indictment, and otherwise simplifies and amends the Criminal Law of Scotland. See CAPITAL OFFENCES (SCOTLAND).
Witchcraft
Court thinks fit [R.v. Stephenson, (1904) 68 J.P. 524] See VAGRANT. Prior to this Act witchcraft was a capital offence (see 1 & 2 Jac. 1, c. 12), and a woman and her daughter aged nine years … carried on against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, enactments, or conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence in Great Britain'; but it is also enacted that all persons pretending to use any kind of witchcraft,
Misprision
Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason
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