Criminal Offences relative to the Sovereign and the State.
| 4. He who enters the house or abode of another, and uses violence against his person, goods, or possession, is guilty of open force. | Imprisonment, not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years, and condemnation to the public works. |
| 5. He who violently resists the authority of a Judge, or Officer of Justice, although no wound result, is guilty of open violence. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years; but where there is an injury and wounds, not exceeding 8 nor less than 5. |
| 6. Breach of trust, in a Governor, or Chargé des Affaires; neglecting the interest of the State, or betraying his Country, &c. | Imprisonment not less than 8, nor more than 12 years, and condemnation to the public works, and in aggravated cases, the pillory.[16] |
| 7. A Judge, who from corruption or passion is guilty of an abuse of judicial authority. | Imprisonment not less than 8, nor more than 12 years, and condemnation to the public works, and in aggravated cases, the pillory. |
| 8. Accomplices attempting to corrupt a Judge. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years; and condemnation to the public works. |
| 9. Forgery, by attempting to counterfeit public bills of the State which circulate as money. | Imprisonment not less than 30 years, and branding with a hot iron. |
| 10. Falsifying a public bill, by changing or altering it, or imitating the signatures. | Imprisonment not less than 12, nor more than 15 years, and condemnation to the public works. |
| 11. Coining false money, resembling the Coin of the Hereditary Dominions, or foreign Coin current by law; even though of equal weight and quality, or superior to the current Coin. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years, with condemnation to the public works. |
| 12. Coining false money, by using a bad alloy; and by fraud giving false money the quality of good. | Imprisonment not less than 12, nor more than 15 years, and condemnation to the public works. |
| 13. Accomplices in fabricating tools for Coining. | Imprisonment not less than 8, nor more than 12 years, and condemnation to the public works. |
| 14. Assisting in the escape of a prisoner. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years; and condemnation to the public works. |
| 15. Magistrates granting indulgencies contrary to law, &c. | Imprisonment not less than 12, nor more than 15 years; and deprivation of authority. |
Criminal Offences against Human Life and Bodily Safety.
| 16. Murder,—by wounding a man so that death ensues, including all accomplices. | Imprisonment not less than 15, nor more than 30 years; the latter in cases of consanguinity.[17] |
| 17. Killing a man in self-defence, if the slayer exceed the bounds of necessity. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years, and condemnation to the public works. |
| 18. Murder,—with an intention to rob or steal the property of the person, or other property intrusted to his care. | Imprisonment not less than 30 years, with the hot iron; in cruel cases, to be closely chained, with corporal punishment[18] every year. |
| 19. Assassination by stratagem, arms, or poison. | Condemnation to the Chain,[19] not less than 30 years. |
| 20. Inducing another to commit Murder; by caresses, promises, presents, or threats; whether death is the result or not. | Imprisonment not less than 5, nor more than 8 years, and condemnation to the public works.—If murder is committed, the criminal shall suffer as a murderer. |
| 21. Duelling,—or challenging another to combat with murderous weapons on whatever pretence the challenge be grounded.—The person accepting the challenge is equally guilty, after agreeing to combat with murderous weapons. | If death ensues; condemnation to the chain for 30 years, where the survivor is the challenger. If the survivor be the party challenged, imprisonment, not more than 12, nor less than 8 years, and condemnation to the public works. If neither fall, imprisonment to the challenger, not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years; and hard labour in the public works. |
| 22. Accomplices acting as assistants and seconds. | Imprisonment not less than 1, nor more than 5 years. |
| 23. A woman with child using means to procure abortion. | Imprisonment not less than 15, nor more than 30 years; and condemnation to the public works: augmented when married women. |
| 24. Accomplices advising and recommending abortion. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years, and condemnation to the public works.—Punishment increased when the accomplice is the father of the infant. |
| 25. Exposing a living infant, in order to abandon it to danger and death; or to leave its deliverance to chance; whether the infant, so exposed, suffers death or not. | Imprisonment not less than 8, nor more than 12 years; to be increased under circumstances of aggravation. |
| 26. Maiming by malignant assault. | Imprisonment not less than 1 month, nor more than 5 years. |
| 27. Suicide or self-murder, without any sign of insanity. | The body to be thrown into the earth by the executioner, and the name of the person and crime to be publicly notified and fixed on a gallows. |
Criminal Offences against Honour and Liberty.