Murder - Law Dictionary Search Results
Treason
1889, treason consisting in the imagining bodily harm to the king in that kind is triable just as murder is. By the same Act firing at the king or striking him is punishable with whipping. The Crown
Thug
any other or others for the purpose of committing robbery or child-stealing by means of or accom-panied with murder, is a thug. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 310)
Threats
(ibid.), as to threats to accuse of certain serious crimes, and BLACKMAIL. The sending of letters threatening to murder is punishable by penal servitude not exceeding ten years (Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 16). The
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T, every person who was convicted of felony, short of murder, and admitted to the benefit of clergy, was at one time marked with this letter upon the brawn
Sessions of the peace
the Recorder of any borough, shall at any sessions of the peace try any person for any treason, murder, or capital felony, or for any felony which, when committed by a person not previously convicted of felony,
Ribbonmen
Ribbonmen, associations or secret societies formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by murder and fire-raising. See Alison's Hist. of Europe from 1815 to 1852, vol. 4, cap. 20, s. 13.
Moerda
Moerda, the secret killing of another; murder, Teutonic word. 4 Bl. Com. 194.
Poor Prisoners, Defence of
such aid, and must be granted in respect of any person committeed for trial on a charge of murder, and may be granted when a person committed for trial upon any other charge, if it appears to
Piracy
after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, shall assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel, or shall stab, cut, or
Peace, Breach of the
given in his presence; and an ordinary subject may arrest another who is on the point of committing murder, and may break and enter a house to do so; and may arrest a lunatic about to do
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