Part 5 (2/2)

The offences are divided into seven different cla.s.ses.

It is impossible, within the narrow compa.s.s of this Work, to enter into a particular detail of the various subdivisions of the Crimes and Punishments explained in this Code; which must be perused, in order to form a clear and comprehensive view of the subject. The following Specification therefore contains merely the _heads_ or outlines of the System; which it is hoped may be found, from the mode of its arrangement, to convey to the reader both amus.e.m.e.nt and instruction.

ABSTRACT

OF

_THE CRIMINAL CODE_

OF THE

EMPEROR JOSEPH II.

CRIMES. PUNISHMENTS.

_High Treason._

1. Laying violent hands on Confiscation of property; the Sovereign, whether injury imprisonment for not less than 30 results from it or not. years; and branding on each cheek with the mark of a gallows[15] if the prisoner is remarkably depraved.

2. Attacking the Sovereign Imprisonment 8 years, and not by speeches or writings. less than 5.

3. Persons conspiring and Confiscation of Property and taking up arms, or entering 30 years' imprisonment, with into alliance with an enemy, branding as above.

&c. are guilty of _sedition and tumult_.

_Criminal Offences relative to the Sovereign and the State._

4. He who enters the house Imprisonment, not less than or abode of another, and uses 1 month, nor more than 5 years, violence against his person, and condemnation to the public goods, or possession, is works.

guilty of _open force_.

5. He who violently resists Imprisonment not less than the authority of a Judge, or 1 month, nor more than 5 years; Officer of Justice, although but where there is an injury and no wound result, is guilty of wounds, not exceeding 8 nor _open violence_. less than 5.

6. Breach of trust, in a Imprisonment not less than 8, Governor, or Charge des nor more than 12 years, and Affaires; neglecting the condemnation to the public works, interest of the State, or and in aggravated cases, the betraying his Country, &c. pillory.[16]

7. A Judge, who from Imprisonment not less than 8, nor corruption or pa.s.sion is more than 12 years, and guilty of an _abuse of condemnation to the public works, judicial authority_. and in aggravated cases, the pillory.

8. Accomplices attempting Imprisonment not less than 1 to corrupt a Judge. month, nor more than 5 years; and condemnation to the public works.

9. Forgery, by attempting to Imprisonment not less than counterfeit public bills of 30 years, and branding with a the State which circulate as hot iron.

money.

10. Falsifying a public bill, Imprisonment not less than 12, by changing or altering it, nor more than 15 years, and or imitating the signatures. condemnation to the public works.

11. Coining false money, Imprisonment not less than 1 resembling the Coin of the month, nor more than 5 years, Hereditary Dominions, or with condemnation to the public foreign Coin current by law; works.

even though of equal weight and quality, or superior to the current Coin.

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