93
Abduction (of a girl under sixteen years of age / S. 24 + 25 Tic. C.100. S. 35. Kidnapping (by Common Law) and false imprisonment.
Perjury
Subornation of Perjury
All indictable "Misdemeanor for malice"
8
As above
Offences against Property
the crimes mentioned in the last paragraph are felonies. The Government of this Colony cannot surrender to the Government of other Colonies offenders charged with the commission of such crimes. And I trust that its importance will satisfy His Excellency that I am only doing my duty in again pressing the subject upon his notice.
The Indian Penal Code employs the general term 'offence' to indicate all crimes, which in England and in most Colonies would be distinguished as felonies or misdemeanors. Without expressing an opinion upon the general effect which the adoption of this Code in a Colony may have upon the application of the 16th Section as amended of the Act 6 and Cap. 34 to the rendition of criminals to such Colony, I venture to think that its adoption may give rise to questions of considerable difficulty in the existing state of the law.
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