Civil Offences that affect the Fortunes and Rights of Citizens.
| 47. Stealing to the value of 25 crowns of any moveable, when not accompanied with aggravating circumstances: Stealing Wood in a Forest—Poaching by an unqualified person—Stealing Fruit from Trees—or earth from open Fields—though beyond the value of 25 crowns. (See ante, [No. 38], [39].) | Confinement, corporal correction, and the augmentation of the punishment if requisite. |
| 48. Using Frauds in playing at Games allowed by Law. | The pillory and condemnation to the public works, in atrocious cases; also imprisonment, from 1 day to a month, and restitution.—In case of foreigners, the pillory and banishment. |
| 49. Accomplices co-operating in such Frauds. | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month. |
| 50. Playing at prohibited Games. | A fine of 300 ducats, or imprisonment. |
| 51. Persons selling Merchandize at higher prices than fixed by the Police, or by false weight or measure. | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month, which may be augmented. |
| 52. Adultery. | Corporal correction, or imprisonment from 1 day to a month. |
| 53. Contracting illegal Marriages. (See ante, [No. 42].) | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month, and condemnation to the public works. |
| 54. Servants receiving earnest, and engaging to serve more masters than one, or otherwise misbehaving. | Corporal correction or imprisonment from 1 day to a month. |
| 55. Masters giving servants a false character. | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month. |
| 56. Libels on another by writings or disgraceful prints or drawings, causing injury to another. (See ante, [No. 28].) | Condemnation to the public works; reserving the right to recompence to the party wronged. |
| 57. Distributing or publishing Libels. | Condemnation to the public works; reserving the right of recompence to the party wronged. |
| 58. Actions by which danger by fire may be occasioned; such as smoking tobacco in a stable, timber-yard, &c. | Corporal correction. |
| 59. Acts of hasty petulance, leading to quarrels, assaults, and damages. | Imprisonment various, or condemnation to the public works. |
Civil Offences that tend to the Corruption of Morals.
| 60. Wickedly insulting the Supreme Being by words, deeds, or actions, in a public place, or in the presence of another person. | Detention in the hospital destined for madmen; where the offender is to be treated like a man out of his senses, until his amendment be perfect and assured. |
| 61. Disturbing the exercise of Public Worship, &c. | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month; to be augmented by fasting and corporal correction. |
| 62. Writing or Preaching against the Christian Religion, and Catholick Faith, &c. &c. Heresies, &c. | Pillory and Imprisonment, from 1 day to a month, or to a year. |
| 63. Committing indecencies in any public street or place. | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month, augmented by fasting. |
| 64. Attempting to seduce or insult women of reputation, by shameful debauchery, and using gestures, or discourses, tending to that purpose. | Imprisonment from 1 day to a month. |
| 65. Carnal Commerce by Man with Beast, or with a person of the same sex,—Sodomy. | Corporal Correction, and condemnation to the public works; and banishment from the place where the offence has been publicly scandalous. |
| 66. Consenting to shameful debauchery in his house; Keeping a Bawdy House. | Condemnation to the public works, from 1 month to 1 year; to be augmented when an innocent person has been seduced; second offence, the pillory. |
| 67. Any person, man or woman, making a business of prostitution, and deriving profit from thence. | Imprisonment from 1 month to a year; second offence, punishment double, and augmented by fasting and corporal correction. |
| 68. Dealing in Books, Pictures, or Prints which represent indecent actions. | Imprisonment from 1 day to 1 month. |
| 69. Disguising in masks, and obtaining admission into societies, and secret fraternities not notified to the Magistrate. | The same. |
| 70. Harbouring in dwellings persons not known to have an honest mean of living. | The same. |
| 71. Banished persons, from the whole of the Austrian Dominions—returning, &c. | Corporal correction, to be doubled at each successive return; and the offender to be banished from the Hereditary Dominions. |
In contemplating the various component parts of this Code, it is easy to discover that although some features of it may be worthy of imitation, upon the whole it is not suited either to the English constitution or the genius of our people. It is, however, a curious and interesting document, from which considerable information may be drawn; if ever that period shall arrive when a revision of our own criminal Code (in many respects more excellent than this) shall become an object of consideration with the Legislature.—At all events it strongly evinces the necessity of adapting the laws to the circumstances and situation of the Government; and of the people whose vices are to be restrained.