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Offences Against The Person Act 1861 (1861 c 100)

This seminal piece of Victorian legislation consolidates various criminal offences related to personal harm into a single statute, aiming to simplify and modernise the law. Key provisions include defining and penalising acts such as grievous bodily harm, wounding, assault, and poisoning. The Act created a comprehensive legal framework to address violent crimes, significantly enhancing legal clarity and enforcement efficacy. It also introduced the offence of causing bodily harm by explosives and provisions for child protection, reflecting societal concerns of the era. Its enduring influence underscores its foundational role in criminal law.

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Offences Against The Person Act 1861 (1861 c 100)

This seminal piece of Victorian legislation consolidates various criminal offences related to personal harm into a single statute, aiming to simplify and modernise the law. Key provisions include defining and penalising acts such as grievous bodily harm, wounding, assault, and poisoning. The Act created a comprehensive legal framework to address violent crimes, significantly enhancing legal clarity and enforcement efficacy. It also introduced the offence of causing bodily harm by explosives and provisions for child protection, reflecting societal concerns of the era. Its enduring influence underscores its foundational role in criminal law.

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Offences Against The Person Act 1861 (1861 c 100)

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4 Conspiring or soliciting to commit murder

5 Manslaughter

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9 Murder or manslaughter abroad

10 Provision for the trial of murder and manslaughter where the death or cause of death only happens in England or Ireland

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17 Impeding a person endeavouring to save himself or another from shipwreck

18 Shooting or attempting to shoot, or wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, or to resist apprehension

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20 Inflicting bodily injury, with or without weapon

21 Attempting to choke, etc, in order to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence

22 Using chloroform, etc, to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence

23 Maliciously administering poison, etc, so as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm

24 Maliciously administering poison, etc, with intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy any other person

25 Person charged with felony under s 23 may be found guilty of misdemeanor under s 24

26 Not providing apprentices or servants with food, etc, or doing bodily harm, whereby life is endangered, or health permanently injured

27 Exposing child, whereby life is endangered, or health permanently injured

28 Causing bodily injury by gunpowder

29 Causing gunpowder to explode, or sending to any person an explosive substance, or throwing corrosive fluid on a person, with intent to do grievous bodily harm

30 Placing gunpowder near a building, etc, with intent to do bodily injury to any person

31 Setting or allowing to remain spring guns, etc, with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm

32 Placing wood, etc, on railway, taking up rails, turning points, showing or hiding signals, etc, with intent to endanger passengers

33 Casting stone, etc, upon a railway carriage, with intent to endanger the safety of any person therein, or in part of the same train

34 Doing or omitting anything so as to endanger passengers by railway

35 Drivers of carriages injuring persons by furious driving

36 Obstructing or assaulting a clergyman or other minister in the discharge of his duties in place of worship or burial place, or on his way thither

37 Assaulting a magistrate, etc, on account of his preserving wreck

38 Assault with intent to commit felony, or on peace officers, etc

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47 Assault occasioning bodily harm—Common assault

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58 Administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion

59 Procuring drugs, etc, to cause abortion

60 Concealing the Birth of a Child

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64 Making or having gunpowder, etc, with intent to commit or enable any person to commit any felony mentioned in this Act

65 Justices may issue warrants for searching houses, etc, in which explosive substances are suspected to be made or kept for use in committing any felonies mentioned in this Act

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68 Offences committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty

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