Capital Punishment (Ireland) Act 1821
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1821 c. 34 |
| Year | 1821 |
(1 & 2 Geo. 4) C A P. XXXIV.
[28th May 1821]
'WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament ofIreland in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne , intituled An Act for taking away the Benefit of Clergy in certain Cases, and for taking away the Book in all Cases, and for repealing Part of the Statute for transporting Felons; it is among other Things enacted, that if any Person shall steal or feloniously take away any Goods of the Value of Five Shillings or more, out of any Shop, or out of any Stable or Coach-house or Booth, in any Fair or Market, and being indicted or appealed thereof, shall be thereupon found guilty by Verdict of Twelve Men, or shall confess the same on his, her or their Arraignment, or will not answer directly according to Law, or shall wilfully or of Malice stand mute, or shall peremptorily challenge above the Number of Twenty Jurors, or shall be outlawed on the same Indictment, and also all and every Person and Persons who shall be accessary before or after to any of the aforesaid respective Facts, they and every the aforesaid respective Criminals shall receive Judgment and suffer the Pains of Death, without any Allowance or Benefit of the Clergy or of the Act; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And Whereas by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Seventeenth Year of the Reignof KingGeorge the Second, intituled An Act to take away the Benefit of Clergy from any Person that shall by Night or by Day time feloniously and fraudulently steal any Goods out of any Shop, Warehouse, Tan Yard, Drying House, Cellar or Outhouse, though not adjoining to any Dwelling House, or off of Quays, and to encourage Persons to apprehend such Felons and other Robbers , it is among other Things enacted, that all and every Person or Persons that shall at any Time or Times, by Night or in the Day time privately and feloniously steal any Goods, Wares and Merchandize, to the Value of Five Shillings or more, out of any Shop, Tan Yard or Drying House belonging to a Tanner...
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