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Art. 3. Maxims, &c.

4. The law of nations.

5. Municipal criminal law,

6. Punishment by our law generally, kinds of, ends of, variations in; persons not punishable, minors, chance, necessity, subjection, &c. in eleven heads.

7. Malice.

8. Who are principals, who accessaries.

9. Act of Congress as to crimes.

10. Proceedings as to principals and accessaries, and notes.

11. Extracts from the new penal code of France, and remarks on them.

CHAPTER CXCVIII.

CRIMES, &C. AGAINST RELIGION AND MORALITY.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Blasphemy.

3. Idolatry.

4. Heresy.

5. Jesuitism.

6. Profane cursing and swearing.

7. Witchcraft, conjuration, enchantment, and sorcery.

8. Lord's day acts.

9. Adultery, lewdness, incest, fornication.

10. Polygamy.

11. Bawdy houses, brothels, &c.

12. Drunkenness and intoxication.

CHAPTER CXCIX.

CRIMES AGAINST the state, as TREASON, &c.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Treason generally.

3. Allegiance.

4. What is treason in the United States.

5. What is levying war.

6. Levying war; American cases.

7. What is adhering to enemies, giving aid and comfort.

8. American proceedings in treason.

9. Misprision of treason.

10. Public agents, as ambassadors, ministers, &c.

11. Ambassadors how punishable for crimes or not.

CHAPTER CC.

CRIMES AGAINST the state, as FELONY, &c.

Art. 1. Felony defined: so modern felony.

2. Coins or public currency.

3. Debasing the coin, &c.

4. Bank bills.

5. Embezzling public stores.

6. Serving foreign states.

7. Desertion.

CHAPTER CCI.

CRIMES, &C. AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY.

Art. 1. General principles; offences against the public peace, public

trade, public police.

2. Affrays.

3. Approvement.

4. Arsenals.

5. Assaults.

6. Bankruptcy; fraudulent.

CHAPTER CCII.

BARRETRY.

Art. 1. What is barretry.

2. What is not barretry.

3. What must be alledged in the indictment.
4. Massachusetts Colony law as to barretry
5. Bribery.

6. What is bribery.

7. American cases.

8. Challenges to fight.

9. Champerty.

10. Maintenance.

CHAPTER CCIII.

CHEATINGS, DECEITS, AND FRAUDS.

Art. 1. Cheating, &c.

2. What is an indictable cheat or fraud at common law.

3. A naked lie not indictable at common law.

4. American cases.

5. Frauds in casting away ships.

6. Deceits and frauds in particular trades and branches of trade

and commerce.

Art. 7. Late decisions as to false pretences, and general principles as to false tokens, &c.

CHAPTER CCIV.

COMPOUNDING INFORMATION, CONSPIRACY, &C. DUELLING, EMBRACERY, ELECTIONS, ESCAPES, RESCUES, EXTORTION, FORCIBLE ENTRY, &C.

Art. 1. Compounding, &c.

2. Conspiracy.

3. Evidence and forms, &c.

4. American cases of conspiracy.

5. Evidence that proves a conspiracy.

6. Duelling.

7. Embracery.
8. Elections.

9. Escapes.

10. Rescues.

11. Extortions.

12. Forcible entry.

13. Going and rioting armed in terrorem.

14. Menacing letters sent.

CHAPTER CCV.

FORESTALLING, ENGROSSING, MONOPOLIES, AND REGRATING.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Forestalling.

3. Engrossing.

4. Regrating.

5. Monopolies.

6. Adopted in the United States.

CHAPTER CCVI.

GAMING AND GAMING HOUSES, INNS, &C. IDLERS, &C.

Art. 1. General principles.

2. Gaming.

3. Inns or taverns, and licensed houses and places.

4. Idle persons.

5. Play houses.

6. Luxury.

7. Federal district, retailing in.

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4. Pleadings in cases of indictment, &c. for libels, &c.

5. Mail, robbery of, &c.

CHAPTER CCVIII.

NUSANCES, BONFIRES, PAGEANT SHOWS, &C.

Art. 1. Nusances of various kinds.

2. Bonfires, crackers, fire-works, squibs, rockets, pageant shows, setting fire to woods.

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PERJURY AND SUBORNATION OF PERJURY.

Art. 1. Perjury at common law.

2. Acts of Congress as to.

Art. 3. Massachusetts acts.

4. What is perjury or not.

5. Indictment, &c.

6. Piracy, common law, &c.

7. By Art 1, sect. 8, of the Constitution, &c. acts of Congress. 8. Massachusetts statutes as to piracy.

9. What is piracy or not.

CHAPTER CCXI.

RIOTS, ROUTS, AND UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES, SCHOOLS, SLAVE TRADE, &C. TRES

Art. 1. Riot, &c. generally.

PASS.

2. Massachusetts statutes as to.

3. The indictment.

4. Schools, neglect to keep, &c.

5. Law questions as to district schools.

6. Slave trade.

7. State statutes as to.

8. Kidnapping.

9. Trespass, and notes.

10. Usury generally.

11. Adjudged cases as to usury.

12. Weights and measures, how derived, sorts, &c.

13. Statutes, &c. in the United States.

14. Adjudged cases, indictments for using false weights, &c.

CHAPTER CCXII.

CRIMES AFFECTING INDIVIDUALS.

Art. 1. General principles,

2. Homicide of various descriptions.

3. Dwelling houses.

4. Arson generally.

5. Statutes as to.

6. Construction, cases, &c.

7. Burglary generally.

8. What is night time.

9. What is breaking and entering.

10. The intention to commit felony.

11. Massachusetts statutes, and several matters,

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