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CHAPTER XXXIX.

ABUSE OF ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, § 1832.

CHAPTER XL.

FORESTALLING, REGRATING, AND ENGROSSING, § 1849.

CHAPTER XLI.

CHAMPERTY AND MAINTENANCE, § 1853.

CHAPTER XLII.

BRIBERY, § 1857.

PART V.

OFFENCES ON THE HIGH SEAS.

CHAPTER XLIII.

PIRACY, § 1860.

CHAPTER XLIV.

MALTREATMENT OF CREW, § 1871.

CHAPTER XLV.

REVOLT, § 1876.

CHAPTER XLVI.

FORCING SEAMAN ON SHORE, § 1885.

CHAPTER XLVII.

SLAVE TRADE, § 1889.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

DESTROYING VESSEL WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD UNDERWRITERS,

§ 1894.

PART VI.

OFFENCES AGAINST FOREIGN NATIONS.

CHAPTER XLIX.

VIOLENCE TO FOREIGN MINISTERS, § 1899.

CHAPTER L.

LIBELS ON FOREIGN STATES, § 1900.

CHAPTER LI.

BREACH OF NEUTRALITY, § 1901.

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BOOK II.

CRIMES.

PART II.-OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY.

(CONTINUED.)

CHAPTER XVI.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF.

Statutes in this relation are based on common law, § 1065.

Offence at common law is of wider scope in this country than in England, §

1066.

Offence includes malicious physical in-
jury to another person or to the pub-
lic, § 1067.

But offence must be with malice to owner
or involve a breach of the peace, § 1068.
Offence is distinguishable from larceny
by absence of intent to steal, § 1069.
Malice is essential, § 1070.
Malice is to be inferred from facts, § 1071.
May be negatived by proof of other
motives, § 1072.

Honest belief in title a defence, § 1072 a.
Consent of owner is a defence, § 1073.
Injury must be such as to impair utility,
§ 1074.

Owner is competent witness, § 1075.
All kinds of property are subjects of
offence, § 1076.

Owner's title is immaterial, § 1077.
Indictment must contain proper techni-
cal averments, § 1078.

Malice must usually be averred, § 1079.
Mode of injury must be averred, § 1080.
Statutory offence of endangering lives of
railroad travellers, § 1081.
Statutory offence of obstructing railroad
carriages, § 1082.

Statutory offence of malicious injury to
manufactures and machinery, § 1082 a.
Statutory offence of injuring mines, §
1082 b.

Statutory offence of injuring trees and shrubs, § 1082 c.

Statutory offence of cruelty to animals, § 1082 d.

I. BY STATUTE.

Statutes

based on

§ 1065. In prior editions, the statutes in force in a series of States were given on this topic. They are now omitted for purposes of condensation; but the adjudications upon them are hereafter noticed, as throwing light upon the common exposition of the offence as it exists at common law. It is proper to add, also, that for two reasons the points about to be i

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