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Oysters
Oysters. Stealing oysters from oyster beds properly marked out is felony and punishable as simple larceny, i.e., by penal servitude up to three years, or imprisonment up to three years, and,
Rule of lenity
judicial doctrine holding that a court, in construing an ambiguous criminal statute that set out multiple or inconsistent punishments, should resolve the ambiguity in favour of the more lenient punishment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1332.
Parenthesis
Parenthesis, part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and usually enclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the sentence.
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Tautology
Tautology, describing the same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms: the latter...
False pretence, obtaining property
134. As to guilty knowledge, see R. v. Ollis, (1900) 2 QB 758. Cheating at cards, etc., is punishable as obtaining by false pretence, by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), s. 47.
Wounding
by any means is, by s. 18 of the Offences against the (English) Person Act, 1861, a felony, punishable up to penal servitude for life; and by s. 19 of the same Act unlawfully and maliciously wounding
Women's modesty
of being outraged. Whoever uses criminal force to her with intent to outrage her modesty commits an offence punishable under s. 354. The culpable intention of the accused is the crux of the matter. The reaction of
Vagrants
to hard labour for one year or less; and, further, that such offender (not being a female) be punished by whipping, at such time, and at such place within their jurisdiction, as they deem expedient. By the
Ut pana ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat
Ut pana ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat (4 Inst.6), though few are punished, the fear of punishment affects all.
Treason
(Misc. Prov.) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36), s. 1 (4), and Sch. I. The punishment of a convicted traitor is death by hanging, the ignominious adjuncts of drawing on a hurdle and quartering,
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