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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18т FEBRUARY, 1865.
Abducation of a Woman against her
lucre,
tion of a Girl against the will of her Father, &c.
L. Where any Woman of any Age shall have any Interest legal or equitable, pre- will, from motives of sent or future, absolute, conditional, or contingent, in any real or personal Estate or shall be a presumptive Heiress or Cobeiress or presumptive Next of Kin, or one of the presump- tive Next of Kin, to any one having such Interest, whosoever shall, from motives of lucre, take away or detain such Woman against her Will, with intent to marry or carnally know Fraudulent Abdue- her, or to cause her to be married or carnally known by any other Person; and whoso- ever shall fraudulently allure, take away, or detain such Woman, being under the Age of Twenty-one Years, out of the possession and against the Will of her Father or Mother, or of any other Person having the lawful care or charge of her, with intent to marry or carnally know her, or to cause her to be married or carnally known by any other Person, shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, Offender incapable with or without Hard Labour; and whosoever shall be convicted of any Offence against this of taking any of her Section, shall be incapable of taking any Estate or Interest, legal or equitable, in any real or personal Estate of such Woman, or in which she shall have any such Interest, or which shall come to her as such Heiress, Coheiress, or Next of Kin as aforesaid; and if any such Mar- riage as aforesaid shall have taken place, such Property shall, upon such Conviction, be settled in such manner as the Supreme Court of in this Colony sitting in its Equity Jurisdiction shall, upon any Information at the suit of the Attorney General, appoint.
Property.
Forcible taking or keeping any Boy or Man with intent to procure Ransom.
Forcible Abduction
of any Woman with intent to marry her.
Abduction of a Girl under Sixteen Years of Age.
Child Stealing.
Bigamy,
LI. Whosoever shall, by force, take away or detain against his Will any Boy or Man of any Age, with intent to detain him in Slavery or to hold him as a Prisoner or to sell him or to procure a Ransom or Benefit for his Liberation, shall be guilty of Felony and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years with or without Hard Labour.
LII. Whosoever shall, by force, take away or detain against her Will any Female Child or any
Woman of any Age, with intent to marry or carnally know her, or to cause her to be married or carnally known by any other Person, or to procure a Ransom or Benefit for her Liberation, or to sell her, or who shall offer or attempt to sell her shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Terin not exceeding Two Years,
with or without Hard Labour.
LIII. Whosoever shall unlawfully take or cause to be taken any unmarried Girl, being under the Age of the Sixteen Years out the possession and against the Will of her Father or Mother, or of any other Person having the lawful or in fact the care or charge of her, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.
Child Stealing.
LIV. Whosoever shall unlawfully, either by force or fraud, lead or take away, or decoy or entice away or detain any Child under the Age of Fourteen Years, with intent to deprive any Parent, Guardian, or other Person having the lawful or having in fact the care or charge of such Child or of the possession of such Child, or with intent to steal any Article upon or about the person of such Child, to whomsoever such Article may belong, and whosoever shall, with any such intent, receive or harbour any such Child, knowing the same to have been, by force or fraud, led, taken, decoyed, enticed away, or detained as in this Section before-mentioned, shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping: Provided, that no Person who shall have claimed any right to the possession of such Child, or shall be the Mother or shall have claimed to be the Father of an illegitimate Child, shall be liable to be prosecuted by virtue hereof on account of the getting pos session of such Child, or taking such Child out of the possession of any Person having the lawful charge thereof.
Bigamy.
LV. Whosoever, being married, shall marry any other Person during the Life of the former Husband or Wife whether the second Marriage shall have taken place in this
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