...Shoplifting Act, and two other Acts, which made it death to steal to the amount of forty shillings in a dwelling-house, or on board a vessel in a navigable river, he says, in reference to the sort of arbitrary discretion which has been exercised in the cases of...

...of " privately stealing in a shop, goods of the value " of five shillings; or in a dwelling house, or on " board a vessel in a navigable river, property...the " value of forty shillings, capital felonies." The publication took place while the fete of the bills was still depending in parliament. On the 2d...

...Ann, and 24 Geo. IL, making the offen* • of privately stealing in a shop goods of the value of 5s., or in a dwelling-house, or on board a vessel in a navigable river property of the value of 40s., capital felonies. None of them passed into law, however, the first being rejected in the House...

...stealing in a shop of goods to the value of five shillings (! ) or in a dwelling-house, or on hoard a vessel in a navigable river, property of the value of forty shillings, capital felonies. His speech on this occasion, he afterwards pub!ished, with some additions, under the title of ' Observations...