Template: History of English criminal law Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! {{Navbox |name = History of English criminal law |title = [[History of English criminal law]] |state = {{{state|autocollapse}}} |listclass = hlist |image = [[File:Scale of justice 2.svg|100px|Scales of justice]] |above = Part of the [[common law]] series |group1 = Classes of crimes |list1 = * [[Felony]] * [[Misdemeanor|Misdemeanour]] * [[Arrestable offence]] * [[Contempt of the sovereign|Contempt of sovereign or statute (breach of any statutory wording as a crime)]] |group2 = [[Inchoate offences in English law|Inchoate offences]] |list2 = * [[Incitement]] |group3 = Defences |list3 = * [[Marital coercion]] * [[Provocation in English law|Provocation]] |group4 = [[Offence against the person|Offences against the person]] or state |list4 = * [[Petty treason]] * [[Capital murder]] * [[Mayhem (crime)]] * [[Treachery Act 1940|Treachery]] |group5 = [[Sexual offences in the United Kingdom|Sexual offences]] |list5 = * [[Buggery]] * [[Labouchere Amendment|Gross indecency between men]] * [[Indecent assault]] |group6 = [[Criminal libel]] and kindred offences |list6 = * [[Seditious libel]] * [[Sedition]] * [[Blasphemous libel]] * [[Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom|Blasphemy]] * [[Obscene libel]] * [[Defamatory libel]] |group7 = [[Property crime|Offences against property]] |list7 = * [[Larceny]] * [[Embezzlement]] * [[Fraudulent conversion]] |group8 = Forgery, personation and cheating |list8 = *[[Cheating (law)|Cheating]] |group9 = Offences against justice |list9 = * [[Misprision of felony]] * [[Compounding a felony]] * [[Champerty and maintenance]] * [[Embracery]] |group10 = Death against family honour |list10 = * [[Felo de se]] |group11 = Criminal behaviour |list11= *[[Common scold]] *[[Loitering]] *Quasi-crimes: [[Nightwalker statute|Until-dawn detention for being a stranger passing a night-watchman]]; informal use of [[stocks]] and similar punishments |belowclass = hlist |below = * {{Portal-inline|Law}} * {{Portal-inline|History}} *For current overview table see [[:Template:English criminal law|English criminal law]] }}<noinclude> {{navbox documentation}} [[Category:United Kingdom law navigational boxes]] [[Category:United Kingdom crime navigational boxes|English law]] [[Category:English history navigational boxes|Law, criminal]] </noinclude> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page