Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851

Frauds as to provisions.

Offering adulterated corn, &c. for sale.

Offering unwholesome or fraudulently prepared meat, &c. for sale.

7. Any person who shall commit any of the next following offences shall be liable to the punishment herein-after specified in each ease:

1. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale any wheat, rye, meslin, peas, beans, barley, bere, oats, shillin, cutlings, meal, flour, malt, or other corn, which shall in the whole or in part be spoiled or adulterated by wetting or mixing therewith any sand, gravel, dirt, or rotten or damaged corn, grain, malt, meal, or flour, or grown or blighted corn, or other kind of stuff, or which shall not be in quality of equal goodness to that produced to the view of the intended buyer or buyers thereof, or shall use any other fraud or deceit therein, in order to make such corn, grain, malt, meal, or flour appear heavier than it would have been without such mixture, fraud, or deceit, shall forfeit all such corn, grain, malt, meal, or flour, to be disposed of as the justices shall direct, and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month:

2. Any person who shall exhibit for sale any unwholesome or fraudulently prepared meat, fish, or other provisions or food of any kind for man or beast, or shall practise any deceit or fraud in respect to the quality of any such meat, fish, or other provisions, shall forfeit all such meat, fish, or other provisions, to be disposed of as the justices shall direct, and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month:

And it shall be lawful for any justice to seize or cause to be seized any of the articles herein-before last mentioned as to which any such offence shall have been committed; and the said justice may, if he shall deem it expedient, either proceed at once to hear and determine the case, or may adjourn the hearing thereof to the next petty sessions of the district.