CORRECTIONS. THE following case just decided to be read in connexion with " Assaults," Summary Index and Notes: Effect of a previous conviction-Case of Miles, Court of Crown Cases reserved (E.), Feb. 1890, before Lord Coleridge, Mr. Baron Pollock, Sir Henry Hawkins, Mr. Justice Grantham, and Mr. Justice Charles. The question was whether a conviction for an assault without any sentence beyond merely entering into recognizance to keep the peace is a bar to an indictment for the same assault as a misdemeanour in maliciously wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm without any felonious intent to inflict such harm. The 24 & 25 Vic., c. 100, s. 45, provides that if a person is summarily convicted of an assault, and shall have suffered his sentence, this shall be a bar to any case or proceeding for the same cause. He was convicted that he did assault and beat. He was upon other evidence indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm. The Recorder before whom he was tried stated the case. It was now, after mature deliberation decided that at Common Law, apart from the Statute, if not by the Statute, that the previous conviction was a bar. The giving security for good behaviour places defendant in the same position as if he had suffered punishment. On an established rule of law, whenever a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a Court of competent jurisdiction, the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence, and he shall not be punished again for the same matter. Where a party accused of a minor offence is acquitted or convicted he shall not be again charged on the same facts in a more aggravated form. Conviction set aside. Page 79.-"Encouraging, &c." animals to fight, &c.-for "assent" in 3rd line read "assist." TABLE OF CONTENTS. PRINCIPLES AND ESTABLISHED MAXIMS TO BE OBSERVED IN THE CONSTRUING OF STATUTES AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW, . 457-610 453-456 644-648 649-674 674-694 SCHEDULE OF FORMS UNDER REFORMATORY SCHOOLS, INDUSTRIAL JUSTICES' CLERKS FEES IN BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRIES, 694-736 737-748 . 749-758 759-767 767-769 771-772 780-804 CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE (IRELAND) ACT, 1887 (Summary ADDENDA (FROM STATUTES, 1889)-ON THE SUBJECTS: CLOTH FACTORIES,' "FISHERIES (Steam Trawling)," "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES," "HORSE-FLESH,' "INDECENT THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. PRELIMINARY OUTLINE. THE GENERAL SCOPE OF A MAGISTRATE'S JURISDICTION AND DUTY. It is not readily that one can select a standpoint whence to pass in review before a newly appointed Justice of the Peace-supposing him to have had no previous insight and experience in the business-the manifold subjects of which he shall have to take cognizance. The author can only, in the first place, recommend that he endeavour to form some general idea of the subjects that will now be referred to, and will then proceed to point out how he is to exercise in respect to them the jurisdiction conferred on him. His integrity, discretion, and good sense he is never once tc relinquish. His knowledge of the people around him, acquaintance with their habits, dispositions, feelings, and their folk-lore, will greatly aid him in the proper administration of justice: without these sober, solid qualities, any flippancy and mere superficial acquaintance with Acts of Parliament will fall short -but this is by the way. It has somehow come to be thought by many persons that our ordinary laws might, had not lawyers interposed, have been reduced to a code not exceeding in scope and extent the Decalogue, and not unlike it in simplicity and comprehensiveness-or, at all events, that they may be so consolidated and classified as without difficulty and uncertainty to be readily turned to and consulted. Well, to people in a rude state, laws few and simple in character may answer their purposes, but then there would be needed unlimited liberty or discretion in their Judges to say what offences the laws meant or did not mean to punish, and such discretion, varying as it must with temper and disposition, would be the law of tyrants. Such simplification is not possible. Not that our jurists and legislators have remained unmindful of the necessity for some codification both as to our Statute and Common Law. A Bill to establish a code of Indictable Offences and the procedure relating thereto was printed so far back as 1878. Eminent lawyers were not agreed as to its principles and details, and Parliament has not to the present, in any serious mood, ventured to discuss its principles. Still, in a modified form, groupings of crimes, amendments in the criminal law, and in the administration of criminal law, gradually progress, as must be apparent to any watchful observer. There have been passed some important consolidating Statutes of the Criminal Law during the present reign-this was in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the Queen. First, as to Larceny and similar Offences.-And as these offences are set out in the Analysis of the Statutes given in the Indictable Offences and Summary Index of this work, they need not be here recapitulated. It embraces crimes, from robbery with violence, and burglary, to the purloining of any cultivated plant, and the stealing of an oyster from its park or bed-almost everything in which one can be said to have a property: 24 & 25 Vic., c. 96. Malicious Injuries to Property.-These offences are likewise set out in the Analysis, and include all mischief from the firing of buildings, by explosives or other means, destruction of machinery, manufactures-all works of usefulness or of art, with a general provision as to injuries to any real or personal property not specially named: 24 & 25 Vic., c. 97. Forgery. This Act consolidates and amends the Statute Law relating to Indictable Offences for Forgery. This crime embraces the forging of H. M. Seals, i.e. the Great or Privy Seal, bank-notes, plates, &c., for the purpose; wills, deeds, bills of exchange, records, deeds, orders of Courts, registers of births, marriages, &c., with general provisions as to forging or altering instruments, knowingly uttering or putting off same, to the prejudice of another man's right, or for the purpose of fraud or deceit, or for such purpose making instruments appear to be what they are not: 24 & 25 Vic., c. 98. Coin.-An Act to amend the Statute Law against Offences relating to coin. This Statute deals with all counterfeits of gold, silver, and copper current coin; colouring genuine coin so as to make it pass for higher coin; impairing, filing, clipping, uttering, or passing counterfeit or base coin; defacing or in anywise tampering with the coin; having in possession coining implements, &c. &c. : 24 & 25 Vic., c. 99. Offences against the Person.-This Act includes homicides, murder, conspiracies to murder, manslaughter, attempts to commit murder by poison, fire, explosives or other means, letters threatening to murder, acts causing or tending to cause danger to life, or bodily harm; neglecting duties to those under our protection, as children, apprentices, servants, whereby life is endangered or health permanently injured; placing wood, stones, &c., on railways. Assaults, |