Offences Against the Person (England) Act 1828

Year1828
Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum Regis, Nono. An Act for consolidating and amending the Statutes inEngland relative to Offences against the Person.

(9 Geo. 4) C A P. XXXI.

[27th June 1828]

'WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal various Statutes now in force in that Part of the United Kingdom calledEngland , relative to Offences against the Person, in order that the Provisions contained in those Statutes may be amended and consolidated into this Act;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 Great Charter made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of KingHenry the Third, as relates to Inquisitionsof Life or Member; and so much of a Statute made in the Fifty-second Year of the same Reign, as relates to murder; and so much of a Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of KingEdward the First, as relates to Inquests of Murder, and the Writ of Odio et Ati, and to any Person ravishing or taking away by Force any Female as therein mentioned, and so much of a Statute made in the Fourth Year of the same Reign, intituled The Statute of Bigamy, as relates to Bigamists; and so much of a Statute made in the Sixth Year of the same Reign, as relates to any Person killing another by Misfortune or in his own Defence, or in other Manner without Felony; and so much of a Statute made atWestminster in the Thirteenth Year of the same Reign, as relates to the Writ of Odio et Ati and to Rape; and so much of a Statute made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Edwardthe Second, commonly calledArticuli Cleri , as relates to laying violent Hands on a Clerk, and so much of a Statute made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King Edwardthe Third, as relates to Bigamists; and so much of a Statute made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the same Reign, as relates to Petit Treason; and so much of a Statute made in the Fiftieth Year of the same Reign, as relates to the Arrest of Personsof Holy Church; and so much of a Statute made in the First Year of the Reign of King Richardthe Second, as relates to the like Arrests; and so much of a Statute made in the Sixth Year of the same Reign, as relates to Ravishers, and to Women ravished; and so much of a Statute made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King Henrythe Fourth, as relates to cutting the Tongues or putting out the Eyes of any the King's Liege People, and to any Assault upon the Servant of a Knight of the Shirein Parliament; and so much of a Statute made in the Second Year of the Reign of King Henrythe Fifth, as relates to Persons fleeing for Murders, Manslaughters, Robberies, and Batteries; and so much of a Statute made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henrythe Sixth, as relates to any Assault or Affray made to any Lord, Knight of the Shire, Citizen, or Burgess being and attending at the Parliament or other Council of the King; and an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of KingHenry the Seventh, intituled An Act against taking away of Women against their Wills; and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled An Act that the Steward, Treasurer, and Controller of the King's House, shall enquire of Offences done within the same; and an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to make some Offences Petty Treason; and an Act passed in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of KingHenry the Eighth, intituled An Act where a Man killing a Thief shall not forfeit his Goods; and an Act passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery; and so much of an Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for Murther and malicious Bloodshed within the Court, as relates to the Punishment of Manslaughter and of malicious Striking, by reason whereof Blood shall be shed; and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled An Act to proceed by a Commission of Oyer and Determiner against such Persons as shall confess Treasons, without remanding the same to be tried in the same Shire where the Offence was committed; and so much of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of KingEdward the Sixth, intituled An Act for the Repeal of certain Statutes concerning Treasons, Felonies, etc., as relates to Petty Treason and Murder, and to Bigamists, but nothing therein now in force relating to Foreign Pleas or Dower; and so much of an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the same Reign, intituled An Act against quarrelling and fighting in Churches and Churchyards, as relates to the Punishment of Persons convicted of striking with any Weapon, or drawing any Weapon with Intent to strike as therein mentioned; and an Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of KingPhilip and Queen Mary , intituled An Act that Accessories in Murder and divers Felonies shall not have the Benefit of Clergy; and an Act passed in the same Years, intituled An Act for the Punishment of such as shall take away Maidens that be Inheritors, being within the Age of Sixteen Years, or that marry them without Consent of their Parents; and so much of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of QueenElizabeth , intituled An Act touching divers Orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of Husbandry, and Apprentices, as relates to the Punishment of any Servant, Workman, or Labourer making any Assault or Affray as therein mentioned; and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Sodomy; and an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to take away Clergy from the Offenders in Rape and Burglary, and an Order for the Delivery of Clerks convict without Purgation; and an Act passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for taking away of Clergy from Offenders against a certain Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of KingHenrythe Seventh, concerning the taking away of Women against their Wills unlawfully ; and an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled An Act to take away the Benefit of Clergy from some Kind of Manslaughter; and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled An Act to restrain all Persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Husbands be dead; and an Act passed in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of the Reign of KingCharles the Second, intituled An Act to prevent malicious Maiming and Wounding; and so much of an Act passed in the same Years, intituled An Act to prevent the Delivery up of Merchant Ships, and for the Increase of good and serviceable Shipping, as relates to any Mariner laying violent Hands on his Commander, as therein mentioned; and so much of an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of KingWilliam the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy, as relates to any Master of a Merchant Vessel, who shall force any Man on Shore, or wilfully leave him behind, or refuse to bring Home any Man as therein mentioned; and so much of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of QueenAnne , intituled An Act for the better preventing of excessive and deceitful Gaming, as relates to the Forfeiture and Punishment of any Person assaulting and beating or challenging or provoking to fight any other Person on account of any Money won as therein mentioned; and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled An Act to make an Attempt on the Life of a Privy Councillor in the Execution of his Office to be Felony without Benefit of Clergy; and so much of an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the First, intituled An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages, as creates any Felony; and an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Second, intituled An Act for the Trial of Murders in Cases where either the Stroke or Death only happens within that Part ofGreat Britaincalled England; and so much of an Ace passed in the Eleventh Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for punishing such Persons as shall do Injuries and Violences to the Persons or Properties of His Majesty's Subjects, with Intent to hinder the Exportation of Corn, as relates to any Person who shall beat, wound, or use any other Violence to any Person or Driver, and so much thereof as makes any Second Offence Felony; and so much of an Act passed in the Twenty-second Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hotpressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages, as extends to the Persons therein mentioned ✗that Part of the Act of the Twelfth Year of KingGeorge the First which is hereinbefore referred to; and the whole of an Act passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for better preventing the horrid Crime of Murder, except so far as relates to Rescues and Attempts to rescue; and so much of an Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for enforcing the Laws against Persons who steal or detain Shipwrecked Goods, and for the Relief of Persons suffering Loss thereby, as relates to any Person who shall be assaulted, beaten, and wounded for the Exercise of his Duty in the Salvage of any Vessel, Goods, or Effects, as therein mentioned, and so much of an Act passed in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, intituled An Act for discontinuing the Judgment which has been required by Law to be given against Women convicted of...

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