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Assault occasioning bodily harm.
Common assault.
Rape.
Procuring the defilement of girl under age.
Carnally knowing a girl under ten years of age.
Carnally knowing a girl between
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1865.
Offences against the Person.
and determine the same: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall authorize any Magistrate to hear and determine any case of assault or battery in which any question shall arise as to the title to any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein or accruing therefrom, or as to any bankruptcy or insolvency, or any execution under the process of any Court of Justice.
41. Whosoever shall be convicted upon an information of any assault occasioning actual bodily harm shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour; and whosoever shall be convicted upon an information for a common assault shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, [or of a Police Magistrate: Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1875] to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one year, with or without hard labour.
Rape, Abduction, and Defilement of Women.
42. Whosoever shall be convicted of the crime of rape 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 life or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
43. Whosoever shall, by false pretences, false representations or other fraudulent means, procure any woman or girl under the age of twenty-one years to have illicit or carnal connexion with any man, 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.
44. Whosoever shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any girl under the age of ten years 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 life or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
45. Whosoever shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any girl being above the age of ten years and under the age of twelve years
768
Assault occasioning bodily harm.
Common assault.
Rape.
Procuring the defilement of girl under age.
Carnally knowing a girl under
ten years of age.
Carnally knowing a girl between
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1865.
Offences against the Person.
and determine the same: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall authorize any Magistrate to hear and determine any case of assault or battery in which any question shall arise as to the title to any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein or accruing therefrom, or as to any bankruptcy or insolvency, or any execution under the process of any Court of Justice.
41. Whosoever shall be convicted upon an information of any assault occasioning actual bodily harm shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour; and whosoever shall be convicted upon an information for a common assault shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, [or of a Police Magistrate: Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1875] to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one year, with or without hard labour.
Rape, Abduction, and Defilement of Women.
42. Whosoever shall be convicted of the crime of rape 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 life or for any term not less than three years,-or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
43. Whosoever shall, by false pretences, false representations or other fraudulent means, procure any woman or girl under the age of twenty-one years to have illicit or carnal connexion with any man, 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.
44. Whosoever shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any girl under the age of ten years 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 life or for any term not less than three. years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
45. Whosoever shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any girl being above the age of ten years and under the age of twelve
years
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