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    The Murder Act 1751 (25 Geo. 2. c. 37), sometimes referred to as the Murder Act 1752, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Act included the...
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    sentence for murder, this practice was codified in England by the Murder Act 1751. It was most often used for traitors, robbers, murderers, highwaymen...
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  • 2007 XYZZY Awards Homicide Murder UK Acts of Parliament Murder Act 1751 Homicide Act 1957 Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 This disambiguation...
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    suffer additional punishments which were already provided for murder by the Murder Act 1751 (25 Geo. 2. c. 37), ss. 1 - 10. This included provision for...
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  • partial defence to murder. See also the Statute of Stabbing and the Murder Act 1751. Hale said: The killing of a man attaint of felony, otherwise than...
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    of the act abolished the distinctive offence of petty treason, providing that petty treason should be treated as murder. Section 11 of the act extended...
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    1788 Doctors' riot Anatomy Act 1832 Anatomy murder Eloise Cemetery Frankenstein Ed Gein Anatoly Moskvin Murder Act 1751 Night Doctors Posthumous execution –...
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    bodies of those executed for murder (and only for murder) could be dissected under the provisions of the Murder Act 1751. This gave a very limited supply...
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    dissection reflects the Murder Act 1751, which allowed for the public dissection of criminals who had been hanged for murder. Hogarth was also a popular...
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    4 and 5 of the Riot Act offences under section 9 of the Murder Act 1751 offences under section 10 of the Prisoners (Rescue) Act (Ireland) 1791 offences...
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    Black Act 1723 Jacobite rising of 1745 and Transportation Act 1746 and 1768 Murder Act 1751 King v Pear (1779) 168 Eng Rep 208, larceny by trick Trial...
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  • develop the Scottish Highlands. 1 June – Murder Act 1751 comes into effect, providing that the bodies of hanged murderers should suffer public dissection or...
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    19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30). {{|Middlesex (Registry of Deeds) Act 1751|public|4|19-12-1751|archived=n|An Act for appointing the Deputy...
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    The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which implemented recommendations contained in the fourth...
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  • Blandy, with arsenic in England in 1751. Lizzie Borden (1860–1927) was an American woman accused and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother. In the...
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    Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy. Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of...
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  • Extreme Images". Sociology Compass. 5 (1): 13–22. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00356.x. ISSN 1751-9020. Ma, Alexandra. "4chan, 8chan, and LiveLeak blocked by...
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    with two counts of murder and one of conspiracy. Originally, Judge William Keene had reluctantly granted Manson permission to act as his own attorney...
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  • Mutiny Acts (redirect from Mutiny Act 1751)
    Regulation Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 33). In 1881, this was in turn replaced by the Army Act – An Act to consolidate the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879...
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  • abduction and murder by strangers in the United States. The event was triggered after the abduction of Etan Patz in 1979 and the kidnapping and murder of Adam...
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  • accused of murder to obtain cadavers for his illustrated textbook on childbirth. In 1751, Helen Torrence and Jean Waldie were convicted of murdering John Dallas...
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    and the murder of a customs officer. 3 October 1750: James MacLaine, 'The Gentleman Highwayman', was hanged at Tyburn, London. 21 June 1751: Alexander...
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    Offences against the Person Act 1828, which removed the distinction between crimes formerly considered as petty treason, and murder. The Royal Commission on...
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    The Four Stages of Cruelty (category 1751 works)
    of four printed engravings published by English artist William Hogarth in 1751. Each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero...
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    Nevertheless, a ban on brothel-keeping was included in the Disorderly Houses Act 1751 as part of legislation against public nuisance. Towards the end of the...
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    The Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for the United Kingdom statutes...
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    England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7). For other years, see list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland...
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    Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). This criminalised entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals. The first CTA, the Criminal Tribes Act 1871, was...
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    Othello (section Act I)
    speech to the Senators from Act 1 Scene 3. The film was critically panned on its 1955 release (headlines included "Mr Welles Murders Shakespeare in the Dark"...
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    lesser sentence for the first time. It did not apply to treason or murder. The Act required judges to enter a sentence of death on the court record, but...
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