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Offences Against the Person Act (Cap. 269).

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Jamaica
Criminal and penal law
1864
National
Law, Act

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Sets out offences against the person including homicide, assualt, rape, protection of women and girls, suppression of brothels, child stealing, bigamy, abortions, infanticide, unnatural offences. It also provides that every person convicted of capital murder is to be sentenced to death except in the case of pregnant women (section 3).

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