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. 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, 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 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 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 MAIM, wounding, &c., with intent to, 183 animals, 272 MAINTENANCE, 92 what acts do not amount to, on account of relationship, 93 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- 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, 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 |