| Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1868 - 832 pages
...statute of 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, § 14, provided, " that, if any woman shall be delivered of a child, and shall, by secret burying, or otherwise disposing of the dead body of the said child, endeavor to conceal the birth thereof, 1 See Crim. Proeed. II. § 158 et seq. provision for tlie birth,... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 720 pages
...stat. 9 Qeo. 4, c. 31, s. 14, it is enacted, " That if any woman shall be delivered «f a child, and shall, by secret burying or otherwise disposing of...said child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, every tuch offender shall bo guilty of a miKtemtrmor," &f. (I) By the stat. 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 31,... | |
| Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1871 - 856 pages
...disposing of the body by the prisoner. In the old statute, 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 14, the words were " by secret burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of the child;" but in the present act, the 24 & 25 Viet. c. 100, s. 60, the words are " every person who shall... | |
| James Redfoord Bulwer - Justices of the peace - 1872 - 298 pages
...enacts that, "if any woman shall be delivered of a child, any person who shall by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child .... endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of » misdemeanour. . . ." THK QUEEN v. BBOWK. taken on this case that there was a... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 710 pages
...Geo. 4, c. 31, sect. 14, it is enacted—" That if any woman shall be deliver«) i cluld, and «hall, by secret burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of the »d child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof; every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 778 pages
...publicly or privately whipped. By \ 14, if any woman shall be delivered of a child and shall, by sucret burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of...said child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable... | |
| George Clipperton Bayne - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1885 - 458 pages
...Servants.) Concealment of the Birth of Children. 1. If any woman shall be delivered of a child and shall by secret burying or otherwise disposing of...said child endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, every such woman so offending shall be deemed to be guilty of the crime of concealing the birth of... | |
| John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1885 - 1126 pages
...acquitted.4 The statute 9 George IV.,5 provides that "if any woman shall be delivered of a child, and shall, by secret burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of the said child, endeavor to conceal the birth thereof," etc., she shall be deemed guilty. A child was found lying dead... | |
| Natal (South Africa) - Law - 1891 - 858 pages
...birth. consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that if any woman shall be delivered of a child, and shall, by secret burying or otherwise disposing of...said child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, every such woman so offending shall be deemed to be guilty of the crime of concealing the birth of... | |
| Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1895 - 1218 pages
...Legislative Council thereof that it any woman shall be delivered of a child and shall by secret buryiug or otherwise disposing of the dead body of the said child endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, every such woman so offending shall be deemed to be guilty of the crime of concealing the birth Penalty.... | |
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