Let it then be done away.
(* 17) Beccaria. 19. 25. G. 2. c. 37.
(* 18) 13. E. 1. c. 34. Forcible abduction of a woman having
substance is felony by 3. H. 7. c. 2. 3 Inst. 61. 4 Bl. 208. If
goods be taken, it will be felony as to them, without this statute;
and as to the abduction of the woman, quaere if not better to leave
that, and also kidnapping, 4. Bl. 219. to the Common law remedies,
viz., fine, imprisonment, and pillory, Raym. 474. 2 Show. 221. Skin.
47. Comb. 10. the writs of Homine replegiando, Capias in Withernam,
Habeas corpus, and the action of trespass? Rape was felony at the
Common law. 3. Inst. 60. but see 2. Inst. 181. further -- for its
definition see 2. Inst. 180. Bracton, L. 3. c. 28. 1. says the
punishment of rape is "amissio membrorum, ut sit membrum pro membro,
quia virgo, cum corrumpitur, membrum amittit, et ideo corruptor
puniatur in eo in quo deliquit; oculus igitur amittat propter
aspectum decoris quo virginem concupivit; amittat et testiculos qui
calorem stupri induxerunt. Olim quidem corruptores virginitatis et
castitatis suspendebantur et eorum fautores, &c. Modernis tamen
temporibus aliter observatur," &c. And Fleta, "solet justiciarius pro
quolibet mahemio ad amissionem testiculorum vel oculorum convictum
condemnare, sed non sine errore, eo quod id judicium nisi in
corruptione virginum tantum competebat; nam pro virginitatis
corruptione solebant abscidi et merito judiciari, ut sic pro membro
quod abstulit, membrum per quod deliquit amitteret, viz.
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