1818 May 15

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons?

VIII Penal Securities

Accessory

Sequential Offences

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Offences riding[?] in tendency &[?] completed offences

In description Sequence of offences depends on the term

employed for the designation of the consummated offence.

The descriptive name according to the nature of the consummated offence /the

consummated has a name belonging to it/.

Connective mutual Offences /Consequently successive concatenated offences/ of the

same sequence /connected in the way of causation/ in a sequence, or Offences inchoate

and consummated with /considered as bearing/ relation to the above Election are as

follows.

1. The consummated offence an offence considered as consummated.

2. Any act in which the consummated offence has its commencement. Such act, if the

offence fails of being consummated – i.e. if the pernicious design fails in so far of

being accomplished, is denominated an attempt.

3. Any preparatory act, or act of simple preparation,

perfor- /exercised/ with the design of producing the effect produced by the

consummated offence, but in point of time anterior to the act which is considered as

an attempt.

Offences thus concatenated may be the offences of the same individual, or offences

of so many different individuals. One individual may be convicted of the consummated

offence, another of an attempt to committ in prosecution of the same individual

design that same species of consummated offence: which attempt of the offence in

question is not consummated, is but an abortive attempt: another individual of an act

which with reference to that same offence considered as consummate is but an act of

preparation: not having run /advanced/ to the length of an attempt.