Offences Against The Person Act, 1861

Assault occasioning bodily harm.

Common assault.

47. Whosoever shall be convicted upon an indictment of any assault occasioning actual bodily harm shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude . . . ; and whosoever shall be convicted upon an indictment for a common assault shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one year, with or without hard labour.

Rape, Abduction, and Defilement of Women.