But quaere,
if they should be imitated more than as to other breaches of trust in
general. 2. As to the subject of larceny, 4 G. 2. c. 32. 6 G. 3. c.
36. 48. 45. El. c. 7. 15 Car. 2. c. 2. 23 G. 2. c. 26. 31 G. 2. c.
35. 9 G. 3. c. 41. 25 G. 2. c. 10. have extended larceny to things of
various sorts either real, or fixed to the reality. But the
enumeration is unsystematical, and in this country, where the produce
of the earth is so spontaneous, as to have rendered things of this
kind scarcely a breach of civility or good manners, in the eyes of
the people, quaere, if it would not too much enlarge the field of
Criminal law? The same may be questioned of 9 G. 1. c. 22. 13 Car.
2. c. 10. 10 G. 2. c. 32. 5 G. 3. c. 14. 22 and 23 Car. 2. c. 25. 37
E. 3. c. 19. making it felony to steal animals ferae naturae.
(* 36) 2 G. 2. c. 25 3. 7 G. 3. c. 50.
(* 37) 3. 4. W. M. c. 9. 4. 5 Ann. c. 31. 5. 4 G. 1. c. 11.
1.
(* 38) 1 E. 2.
(* 39) Breach of prison at the Common law was capital, without
regard to the crime for which the party was committed. "Cum pro
criminis qualitate in carcerem recepti fuerint, conspiraverint (ut
ruptis vinculis aut fracto carcere) evadant, amplius (quam causa pro
qua recepti sunt exposeit) puniendi sunt, videlicet ultimo supplicio,
quamvis ex eo crimine innocentes inveniantur, propter quod inducti
sunt in carcerem et imparcati.
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