Note 75 — ENGLISH LAW AND THE RENAISSANCE.
Reading edition
Thus in particular Queensland in 1899 enacted a criminal code of 707 sections. See Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, New Ser., vol. VI., pp. 555-560: ‘The precedents utilised in framing the Code were the [in England abortive] draft English codes of 1879 and 1880, the Italian Penal Code of 1888, and the Penal Code of the State of New York.’ See also Ilbert, Legislative Methods, p. 155.