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Stocks
maintained at a public spot in every parish as a mode of ignominious confinement for petty offences. For drunkenness it was prescribed in default of distress for a fine, by 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, s. 4
Sale of Goods Act, 1893
Contact, in which it is provided, amongst other things, that an infant or person by mental incapacity or drunkenness incompetent to contract must pay a reasonable price for 'necessaries' sold and delivered to him; that (re-enacting a
Previous conviction
are liable to whipping in addition. Frequently statutes [see, e.g., (English) Licensing Act, 1872, s. 12, as to drunkenness; (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930, s. 13; (English) Truck Act, 1831, s. 9] in imposing penalties, increase them
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Necessaries
'are sold and delivered to an infant or to a person who, by reason of mental incapacity or drunkenness, is incompetent to contract, he must pay a reasonable price therefor.' [(English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s.
Murder
offence must be conscious of doing wrong, and able to discern between good and evil. See IDIOT; LUNATIC; DRUNKENNESS AND MACNAUGHTON'S CASE. (2) Death must result within a year and a day after the cause of death
Intoxicating liquor
and may be entered by the police at anytime (s. 81). They are subject to penalties for permitting drunkenness or gaming for harbouring constables or prostitutes, for sale to children under 14 (see CHILDREN), and other offences
Habitual drunkard
5, c. 51, s. 3); Eaton v. Best, (1909) 1 KB 632; R. v. Briggs, ibid. 381; and DRUNKENNESS.
Inebriate
Inebriate. A drunken person. See DRUNKENNESS.
Good behaviour, security for
Drunkard.--The (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (Edw. 7, c. 28), enables a Court on conviction of a person for drunkenness in a public place, etc., to order him to enter into a recognizance, with or without sureties, to
Drivers, etc., of carriages (UK)
& 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), as amended by 24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50, and see DRUNKENNESS. As to licensing, etc., of drivers of motor cars, see MOTOR CAR.
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