Shortly will be published,

IN ADDENDA to the THIRD EDITION of "OKE'S

AN

MAGISTERIAL FORMULIST," containing Forms in respect of the new matters in the Criminal Law Acts, and other Statutes of the Session 1861, to be bound up with that Work.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS, pp. 1, 2.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF OLD AND NEW PROVISIONS OF THE CONSOLIDATION

ACTS, pp. 3-14.

LARCENY, pp. 20-28; I. Of Animals, O. 1-17; II. Of Trees, Fences, &c.,

O. 18-26; III. Receivers and Accessories, O. 27, 28.

MALICIOUS INJURIES, pp. 30-34; I. To Trees, Plants, Fences, &c., O. 1-8;
II. To Telegraphs and Animals, O. 9—12; III. To any other Pro-
perty, O. 13; IV. Accessories, O. 14.

TELEGRAPHS, p. 34.

WRECK, p. 34; 0.1, 2.

CHAP. IV.

SUMMARY JURISDICTION IN LARCENY.

CORRECTIONS AS TO "CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT," pp. 36, 37.

CORRECTIONS AS TO "JUVENILE OFFENDERS ACT," pp. 37, 38.

то

THE SEVENTH EDITION

OF

Oke's Magisterial Synopsis.

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.

observations.

THE statutes, which it is the purpose of this Supplement to give Introductory upon the plan of the original work, are the seven acts passed on the 6th August, 1861, "to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of England and Ireland" relating to the subjects undermentioned (a), which are respectively enacted to commence and take effect on the 1st day of November, 1861," viz.24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, relating to "Accessories to and Abettors of Indictable Offences."

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c. 95,"to repeal certain enactments which
have been consolidated in several acts
of the present session, relating to
Indictable Offences and other mat-
ters (b)."

c. 96, relating to "Larceny or other similar
Offences."

c. 97, relating to "Malicious injuries to Pro-
perty.

c. 98, relating to "Indictable Offences by For-
gery."

c. 99, "to consolidate and amend the Statute
Law of the United Kingdom against* Sic.
Offences relating to the Coin."

c. 100, relating to "Offences against the Per

(a) These statutes do not consolidate the whole of the Criminal Law, and the offences under the following titles in the "Synopsis," are not affected by these Acts,-Affray, Arms, Bankers, Bribery, Church, &c., Conspiracies, County Courts, Declaration, Disorderly Houses, Elections, Escape, &c., Excise, Extortion, Foreign Service, Friendly Societies, Gaming, Indecency, Libels, Lunatics, Medical Practitioners, Merchant Shipping, Military Law, Nuisances, Oaths (Unlawful), Office, Perjury, Piracy, Post Office, Queen, Railways, Registration and Riot, Smuggling, Treason, Vendors, and many others. If any doubt exists, the Comparative Table of Repealed and New Provisions, infra, p. 3, will at once show whether the act in question is dealt with by the new statutes. (b) This should have been the last Act of the series to receive the Royal Assent, and have been numbered accordingly.

O.SUPP.

B

The operation of the provisions of these acts is confined to offences committed on and after the 1st of November, 1861; for, as respects offences committed before that day, the prosecution will have to be carried on under the previous acts repealed by 24 & 25 Vict. c. 95, s. 1; s. 3 of the latter act enacting as follows,

"Provided also, that every offence which shall have been wholly or partly committed against any of the said acts or parts of acts before this act comes into operation shall be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished, and every penalty in respect of any such offence shall be recovered, in the same manner as if the said acts and parts of acts had not been repealed;-and that every act duly done, and every warrant and other instrument duly made or granted, before this act comes into operation, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said acts and parts of acts had not been repealed; and that every right, liability, privilege, and protection in respect of any matter or thing committed or done before this act comes into operation shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said acts and parts of acts had not been repealed;-and that every action, prosecution, and other proceeding which shall have been commenced before this act comes into operation, or shall thereafter be commenced, in respect of any such matter or thing, may be prosecuted, continued, and defended in the same manner as if the said acts and parts of acts had not been repealed."

It may be here mentioned that as respects the offences punishable summarily upon which the acts will operate, the procedure is not materially altered, and although there are a few (unnecessary) procedure clauses in the Larceny and Malicious Injuries Acts, most of the provisions of the 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, are specially directed to apply to these acts, i. e. as to the time of preferring the complaint, which is thereby extended from three months to six months.

The following comparative table has been prepared with a view to show at a glance and give a ready reference to the new and substituted provisions for the old enactments, as also the nature of the alterations and of the entirely new enactments (c).

It will enable persons

(c) The Table is confined to the English statutes. readily to correct earlier editions of the "Synopsis," and references in other legal works, as well as the marginal references in the Forms in Oke's Magisterial Formulist," 3rd ed.

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