Rape Reeve - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Westminster the First, Statute of
retrains the power of the king's escheator and other officers; amends the criminal law, putting the crime of rape on the footing to which it has been lately restored, as a most grievous but not capital offence, … to render it cheap, simple, and expeditious, Lord Compbell's Lives of the Chancellors v. 1, p. 167; 2 Reeves, c. 9, p. 107. Certain parts of this Act are repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1863,
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