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LAUDANUM, administering, &c., with intent, &c., 184

LAW OF CRIMES, 6

of Criminal Procedure, 6

LAW OF NATIONS, offences against, 42 ·

LEAD: v. METAL.

LEADING QUESTIONS, rules as to, 406, 409: v. EXAMINATION.

LETTER: V. THREATENING.

LEVYING WAR AGAINST THE SOVEREIGN, 50

direct or constructive, 50: v. FELONIOUS COMPASSING.
LEWDNESS: v. INDECENCY.

LIBEL,

both a crime and a civil injury, 3

an offence against the public peace, 107

definition of, 107

civil and criminal proceedings, 107

when an indictment will lie, 108

when it will not, 109

truth of the libel, 108

privileged communications, 110

form of libel, 111

publication of, 111

proof of malice, 111

what must be proved, 111

the province of the jury, 112

Fox's Act, 112

who are criminally liable, 112

newspaper proprietors, &c., 112

punishment, 113

costs, 113, 403

blasphemous libel: v. BLASPHEMY. Seditous Libel: v. SEDI-

TION.

LIBEL, threatening to publish, &c., in order to extort, 114

LICENCE OF MARRIAGE, forgery of, 254

LICENCE UNDER PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS,
regulations as to holders of, 282, 461
for what forfeited, 461

offences with regard to, 461

remission of part of sentence follows as a matter of course, 461

LIGHT: v. SIGNAL.

LIMITATION OF TIME FOR PROSECUTION: v. TIME.

LINEN,

larceny of, in process of manufacture, 210
injury to machines or manufactures, 269
LIQUIDATION: v. BANKRUPT.

LOCUS IN QUO, view of, by jury, 436

Lock, destroying, 271

LODGERS, larceny by, 209

LODGING THIEVES, &c., 221

LOOM: v. MACHINERY.

LORD HIGH STEWARD,

court of, 288

at Oxford or Cambridge, 303

president on impeachment of peer for high treason, 286

on indictment of peer, 287: v. 302, n.

LORDS, HOUSE OF: v. PEERS.

LOST GOODS, larceny of, 205

LOTTERIES, 136

LUCRI CAUSÂ, in what sense taking in larceny must be, 207
LUNATICS, 21

assault on, 187: v. INSANITY.

M.

MACHINERY,

demolishing, 268

damaging, if used in certain manufactures, 269

used in others, or in agriculture, 269

MADNESS, 21: v. INSANITY.

MAGISTRATE,

slanderous words uttered to, 57

false declarations before, 86

contempt of court by, 99

issue of warrant by, 307

summons, 307

information to, 308

arrest by, 311

proceedings before, 316

examination, 316

depositions, 316

binding over witness, 317

MAGISTRATE-continued.

remand, 317

discharge or committal, 318

bail, 319

the sureties, 320

refusing or delaying bail, 320

excessive bail, 321

proceedings against, 485: v. SUMMARY CONVICTION.

MAIL, offences with regard to, tried in any county through which
it passed, 342: v. POST OFFICE.

MAIM,

wounding, &c., with intent to, 183

animals, 272

MAINTENANCE, 92

what acts do not amount to, on account of relationship, 93
curalis, ruralis, 93, n.: v. CHAMPERTY.

MALA IN SE AND MALA QUIA PROHIBITA, 5

as a test of the responsibility of ambassadors, 32

the distinction noticeable in offences against public trade, 115

MALICE,

equals, in legal signification, criminal intention, 13

when it must be directly proved, 13

when presumed, 14

active or positive, passive or negative, 14

express or implied, 14, 161

danger of entertaining the moral signification, 15

absence of, exempts from criminal responsibility, 19

presumed in homicide, 149

aforethought (prepense), or murder malice, 160

MALICIOUS INJURY: v. ARSON.

to houses by explosion, 268

by demolishing, 268

in the case of tenants, 269

to manufactures and machinery, 269

mines, 269

vessels, 270

wrecks, 270

sea and river banks, 270

bridges, viaducts, and aqueducts, 271

turnpikes, 271

walls, gates, &c., 271

railway trains and telegraphs, 271

ponds and fish, 272

MALICIOUS INJURY-continued.

animals, 272

trees, 273

plants, 273

hopbinds, 274

works of art, 274

general provision, if damage exceeds £5..274

if it does not exceed £5.. 274, 473

making a dangerous or noxious thing with intent, &c., 275

not necessary to prove malice against the owner of the pro-
perty, 275

no defence that the offender was in possession, 275

general intent to defraud will suffice, 275

summary jurisdiction, 473

MANAGER: v. COMPANIES.

MANGANESE, larceny of, 192

MANSLAUGHTER, 162

moral character varies widely, 162

voluntary, 163

the instrument used, 163

distinguished from homicide se defendendo, 154, 164

involuntary, 164

negligence, 165

accessories before the fact, 36, 165

punishment, 165

by fighting, 166

by correction, 167

while doing an unlawful act, 167

a dangerous act, 167

of officers of justice, 167

by officers, 168

states of mind constituting manslaughter, 170

MAN-TRAP, setting, 144

MANUFACTURES,

offensive or dangerous, are nuisances, 135

larceny of goods in process of, 210

malicious injury to, 269

MARINES: v. ARMY.

MARRIAGE,

offences connected with, 129, 130, n.

forging licence or certificate, 254: v. REGISTER.

MARRIED WOMAN: v. WIFE.

MASTER, still in possession, though goods intrusted to servant, 203

MATERIALITY: v. PERJURY.

MATRONS, jury of, 459

MAYHEM, 182

MEDICAL EVIDENCE ON INSANITY, 23

MEETING-HOUSE: v. CHAPEL.

MENACES: v. THREATS.

MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1862.. 120

MERCHANT,

embezzlement by, 227

trafficking in property intrusted, 228

MESSAGE: v. TELEGRAPH.

METAL, &C.,

belonging to house, larceny of, 192

purchasing less than specified quantities of old, 283

MIDDLESEX, offences committed in, may be tried in Q. B. Division,
but usually at sessions or C. C. C., 289, 295

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, 301

MILL, setting fire to, 263

MINE,

larceny from, 192

setting fire to, 265

malicious injury to, by conveying water, &c., 269

obstructing ways, 269

obstructing engines, &c., 269

MINIMUM PUNISHMENTS, abolished, 441

MISADVENTURE, homicide by, 154

MISCARRIAGE, attempts to procure, 175

MISDEMEANOR,

distinguished from felony, 8

meaning of the term, 10

further points in which it differs from felony, 10

compounding, 95

verdict for, though facts shew felony, 429

general punishment for, 442

MISFORTUNE, OR MISHAP, as an exemption from criminal responsi-

bility, 28

MISJOINDER OF COUNTS: v. COUNTS.

MISNOMER v. NAME.

MISPRISION,

meaning of, 8

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