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Stealing Children

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Child-stealing

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Abduction

Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12). (3) The Common Law misdemeanour of forcibly stealing or carrying away any person, sometimes known as kidnapping and more accurately described as assault and false imprisonment. … (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 100), s. 56, and see (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12). (3) The Common Law misdemeanour of

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Plagii-crimen, or Plagium

Plagii-crimen, or Plagium, the stealing and retaining the children of freemen and slaves, Civ. Law.

Glass

of persons of fourteen and upwards, see s. 55; see the (English) Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 65), Sched. I., Part I., Article 2; and Children and … By the (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 81(1), every person who steals or with intent to steal breaks any glass belonging to any building, shall be guilty of a felony

Wills

a life estate passed, unless words were used to show an intention to pass the fee. As to stealing wills, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 6. Forgery of a will is a felony punishable with penal … Scotland, where, as generally in Europe, except in England and Ireland, a man cannot deprive his wife and children of a reasonable part (see REASONABLE PARTS) of his personal property. The (English) Wills Act, 1837, deals with

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