Code Henry

Abduction or kidnapping shall be punished with two years at the barrière neuve.

If violence was used in the abduction of a girl under fourteen years of age, and the conviction that the crime was committed with the design of abusing her is established, the guilty party shall be punished with six years at the barrière neuve.

If the crime was committed against a girl under twelve years of age, the penalty shall be doubled.

Rape shall be punished with six years at the barrière neuve if committed against a girl under fourteen years of age; but if the crime was committed against an older person, the penalty shall be three years at the barrière neuve.

If the rape is followed by death, the death penalty shall be pronounced against the guilty party.

The crime of castration shall be punished by death.

The bonds of marriage being sacred, whoever is convicted of having contracted a second marriage before the legal dissolution of the first shall be punished with six years at the barrière neuve, unless he provides proof that his good faith was deceived.

The crime of suppression of birth, or of suppressing and destroying the proofs of someone's civil status, shall be punished with six years of galley service, and if done with the intent to profit from the crime, the penalty shall be doubled.

All those guilty of duels or private combats, with swords, sabers, pistols, or other weapons, preceded by a challenge or agreed meeting, shall be punished by death. The same penalty shall be suffered by those who served as seconds, or who counseled, facilitated, or furnished the weapons.

Whoever has been convicted twice for the same correctional police offense shall be condemned to the galleys for the third time, for the duration for which the offense was punished correctionally upon repeat.

Any theft committed with breaking and entering, false key, or climbing shall be punished with three years at the barrière neuve.

If the theft was committed openly by force and with violence against persons, the penalty shall be five years.

If the person guilty of theft with breaking and entering, false key, or violence lived in the house where the theft was committed, was habitually received there for paid work or service, or was received there as a guest, the penalty shall be eight years at the barrière neuve.

The duration of penalties shall be increased by two years for each of the following aggravating circumstances: 1. If the crime was committed at night; 2. If committed by several persons; 3. If the guilty parties were armed with lethal weapons; 4. If they used them to carry out the theft.

Any person entrusted with objects of any nature for loading or transport by land or water, who allows or permits said objects to be diverted, shall, independently of restitution, be condemned to one year at the barrière neuve; and if the diverted objects were taken for his own profit, the penalty shall be four years.

Every broker and every speculator shall be punished with one year of galley service, and in case of repeat offense, three years.

Any freight shipper convicted of having declared, by bill of lading or insurance policy, the loading of objects not actually found in the crates, bales, or barrels, shall be punished with six years at the barrière neuve.

Whoever steals objects entrusted to him by reason of the service he performs shall be punished with two years of galley service.

Any person convicted of having destroyed, by any means with intent to harm, merchandise, goods, and funds entrusted to them shall be punished with one year at the barrière neuve.

Whoever is convicted of having destroyed, with intent to harm, property titles entrusted to him shall be condemned to three years at the barrière neuve.