Note 55 — ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE.
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Whereby it is enacted that “if any person shall wilfully, maliciously and unlawfully administer to, or cause to be administered to or taken by any of His Majesty’s subjects, any deadly poison or other noxious and destructive substance or thing, with intent thereby to cause and procure the miscarriage of any woman then being quick with child, the offender shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.”