Wellington Supreme Court.
» PRESS ASSOCIATION) Wellington, This Day. Iv addressing the Grand Jury this morning, Justice Richmond said that since the adoption of the Criminal Code Act judge, counsel, and jury had all, as it were, to go to school again. The oldfashioned terms of larcency, embezzlement, and false pretences has disappeared, and were now comprehended under the torm of theft, and in this respect ho thought the change a good one. He referred at some length to section 218 of the Act, defining theft, and explained that the essence of that offence now practically consisted of converting to ones own use that which belonged to some one else.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 31, 6 August 1894, Page 2
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