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(4) who indecently assaults any person;

is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to be whipped.

175.--Punishment for Assault,

A. 197.

B. 204.

Jam, 190.

Cf. 24 & 25

Vict. c. 100,

8. 36, 38.

Any person who commits an assault is liable to imprison- A. 199. ment for one year;

he is also guilty of a simple offence.

178.—Definition of grievous bodily Injury and Assault.

B. 206.

C. 335, 343.

24 & 25 V.

c. 100, 88.

47, 42.

B. 203.

No bodily injury is grievous unless it is likely to cause A. 196. death, or unless it inflicts, or is such as is likely to inflict, a permanent injury.

Disfigurement may constitute a bodily injury.

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An assault is the act of applying force to the person another directly or indirectly, or depriving him of his liberty without his consent, or attempting or threatening by any act or gesture so to apply such force to the person of another, if the person making the attempt or threat bas, or causes the other person to believe on reasonable grounds that he has, present ability to effect such purpose.

177.—Administering Poison.

Any person who, with intent to injure or annoy any person, A. 191. administers to, or causes to be taken by, such person, any B. 197-8. poison or other noxious thing, is guilty of felony, and if the 322

24 & 25 life of any person is endangered, or if any person is made Vict. c. 100, seriously ill thereby, the offender is liable to penal servitude ss. 23, 24. for life.

178.— Endangering the Sufety of Persons by Explosives.

Any person who, by means of an explosion of any explosive A. 185-6. substance unlawfully endangers the life of, or inflicts actual B. 191-2. bodily injury, or any more serious injury, on any person, is Vict. c. 100, -guilty of felony; and

if he causes such explosion with intent to endanger the life of any person or the safety of any building or ship, he

is liable to penal servitude for life.

24 & 25

as. 29, 30.

Any person who unlawfully causes an explosion of any 46 à 47 V. explosive substance, likely to endanger the life of, or to inflict e. 3.

actual bodily injury, or any more serious injury, on any person,

is guilty of a misdemeanour, and also of a simple offence; and

if he causes such explosion with intent to endanger the

life of any person, or the safety of any building or ship, he

is liable to fourteen years' penal servitude.

O. 321.

Any person who unlawfully puts any explosive substance in A. 186. any place, so that the explosion thereof would be likely to Of. B. 192. endanger the life of, or inflict actual bodily injury or any more serious injury on any person, is guilty of a misdemeanour and also of a simple offence; and

A. 187-8. B. 193, 194.

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if he acts as aforesaid with intent to endanger the life of any person, or the safety of any building or ship, he is liable to fourteen years' penal servitude.

Any person who, by any act or omission causes any explosion, or puts any explosive substance in any place as aforesaid, without any legal justification or excuse, being reckless, whether he was likely thereby to cause any injury or damage to any person or thing shall be deemed to have acted unlaw. fully within the meaning of this section.

179.—Endangering the Safety of Persons on Railways.

Any person who, with intent to injure or to endanger the safety of any person on a railway, whether a particular person C. 319. 24 & 25 or not, Vict. c. 100, 88, 32-4.

A. 195.

B. 202.

C. 330.

57 & 58 V.

c. 60, B. 457,

(1) places anything on the railway; or

(2) deals with the railway, or with anything whatever upon or near the railway, in such a manner as to affect injuriously or endanger the safe use of the railway, or the safety of any such person; or

(3) shoots or throws anything at, into, or upon, or causes anything to come into contact with any person or thing on the railway; or

(4) shows any light or signal, or in any way deals with any existing light or signal, upon or near the railway; or

(5) by an omission of any act which it is his duty to do, causes the safety of any such

person to be endangered,

is liable to penal servitude for life.

Any person who does any of the above acts unlawfully, and in a manner likely to injure, or endanger the safety of any person on the railway, or who, by an omission of any act which it is his duty to do, causes the safety of any such person to be likely to be endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Any person who does any of the above acts unlawfully is guilty of a simple offence.

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180.-Sending or taking unseau orthy Ships to Sea.

Any person who

(1) sends, or attempts to send, or is a party to sending or attempting to send a ship to sea in such an unseaworthy state that the life of any person is likely to be thereby endangered; or

(2) being a master of a British ship, knowingly takes, or attempts to take such ship to sea in such an unseaworthy state that the life of any person is likely to be thereby endangered;

unless in the first of the above cases he proves that he took all reasonable means to ensure her being sent to sea in a seaworthy state, and `-

unless in both the above cases he proves that the ship going to sea in such an unseaworthy state was, under the circumstances, reasonable and justifiable

is guilty of a misdemeanour.

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