Offences Against the Person Act 1837

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Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin, Primo. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Offences against the Person.

(7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.) C A P. LXXXV.

[17th July 1837]

'WHEREAS it is expedient to amend so much of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Fourth, intituled Englandrelative to Offences against the Person , and also so much of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the same Reign, intituled Irelandrelating to Offences against the Person , as relates to any Person who shall unlawfully and maliciously administer or attempt to administer to any Person, or who shall cause to be taken by any Person, any Poison or other destructive Thing, or who shall unlawfully and maliciously attempt to drown, suffocate, or strangle any Person, or who shall counsel, aid, or abet therein; and so much of the same Acts or either of them as relates to any Person who shall unlawfully and maliciously shoot at any Person, or who shall, by drawing a Trigger or in any other Manner, attempt to discharge any Kind of loaded Arms at any Person, or who shall unlawfully and maliciously stab, cut, or wound any Person, or who shall unlawfully and maliciously throw or cast at or upon or otherwise apply to any Person any corrosive or noxious Liquid or Substance, with any of the Intents in the same Acts mentioned, or who shall counsel, aid, or abet therein; and so much of the same Acts as relates to any Person who shall use any of the Ways or Means therein mentioned with Intent to procure the Miscarriage of any Woman, or who shall counsel, did, or abet therein; and so much of the same Acts as relates to the Punishment of Accessaries after the Fact to such of the Felonies punishable under those Acts as are herein-before referred to:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said Actsas is herein-before referred to shall continue in force until and throughout the Thirtieth Day ofSeptember One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and shall from and after that Day be repealed, except as to Offences committed before or upon the said Thirtieth Day of September , which shall be dealt with and punished as if this Act had not been passed.

S-II Punishment for administering Poison, &c. with Intent to commit Murder.

II Punishment for administering Poison, &c. with Intent to commit Murder.

II. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall administer to or cause to be taken by any Person any Poison or other destructive Thing, or shall stab, cut, or wound any Person, or shall by any Means whatsoever cause to any Person any bodily Injury dangerous to Life, with Intent in any of the Cases aforesaid to commit Murder, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer Death.

S-III Punishment for Offences with Intent to commit Murder though no bodily Injury effected.

III Punishment for Offences with Intent to commit Murder though no bodily Injury effected.

III. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall attempt to administer to any Person any Poison or other destructive Thing, or shall shoot at...

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