 I. (as we have already seen) were "neither by her own consent, nor without her consent." 3 Inst. 60. Coke elsewhere repeatedly defines rape as "the carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 430by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, Elijah W. Meddaugh, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, William Dudley Fuller, Hovey K. Clarke, John Adams Brooks, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edward Hyde East - Criminal law - 1806 - 556 pages
...without bail or " mainprize." CHAP. X. RAPE, AND THE UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF FEMALE CHILDREN. Rape. The carnal Knowledge of a Woman by Force and against her Will. - - . J l. How punishable at common Law. ib. How by Stat. 3 Ed. 1. c. 13. 13 Ed. 1. st. 1. c. 34. and... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1836 - 772 pages
...Finte. what, and whence derived, iii. 20, n. (м). 562 RAPE, the signification of the word, iii. 549 ia the carnal knowledge of a woman by force, and against her will, ib. circumstances necessary to constitute this offence, ib. n. (u) may be committed on a concubine,... | |
 | Michael Ryan - Medical jurisprudence - 1836 - 608 pages
...See Russell on Crimes, Chitty's Medical Jurisprudence, vol. i. 1834. The legal definition of rape, is the carnal knowledge of a woman by force, and against her will. The carnal knowledge of a child, under ten years of age, with or without her consent, is considered... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...Loomis, 8 Wend., 396. RAPE. 1. What is a rape defined to bet Rape is defined to be the unlawful and carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will. — 1 Hawk., PC, ch. 11, sec. 2. 4 Slacks. Com., 210. 1 East, PC, ch. 10, sec. 1, p. 433. An infant under... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1852 - 750 pages
...ojfciuler, and make him Jind sureties for the pence. 9G. 4, c. 81,s.25. Evidence. Rape is the having carnal knowledge of a woman, by force and against her will. 1 JHaick. c. 41, s. 2. To maintain this indictment, the prosecutrix must prove — 1 . Penetration. Formerly... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1853 - 654 pages
...LEGAL RELATIONS. BODOMY. Nature of the crime. Sources of medical evidence. — Rape is defined in law to be the carnal knowledge of a woman by force, and against her will. In ancient times it was punished by castration, — a punishment which, according to Dr. Griffiths,... | |
 | C. R. Baynes - Medical jurisprudence - 1854 - 182 pages
...prisoner. BOOK IY. RAPE-ABORTION. CHAPTER I. RAPE — GENERAL REMARKS RESPECTING HAPE is defined in Law to be the carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will. Medical evidence is occasionally required to support an accusation of this kind, but it is seldom more... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Medicine - 1856 - 538 pages
...teeth-on-edge. 2. Stnpefacient9. Medicines which produce stupor or insensibility ; narcotics. [STUPRUM. Rape. The carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will.] STYE (ttijian, Saxon ; a springing np). Stian, A little inflammatory tumour on the eyelid. See Hardeolum,... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code, David Dudley Field - Criminal law - 1864 - 358 pages
...extension of the generally received definition of rape. East defines this offense to be " the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will." (1 East. PC, 434.) Blackstone defines it in the same language, omitting the word " unlawful." (4 Blackst. Comm., 210.)... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1865 - 692 pages
...the act was done against the consent of the woman, technically charges the crime of rape, which is the carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will. Co. Lit. 137. 2 Inst. 180. 1 Hawk. c. 16, § 2. 2 Hawk. c. 23, § 79. 2 Stark. Grim. PI. (2d ed.) 431.... | |
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