Letter
No. 1.—Extract., undated
No. 1.—Extract.
[undated.]
[Translation.]
De grondwet voor pet Koningcijlc der Nederlanden, de Nederlandsehe Wetbocken. (Schiedam, 1865,) Wetbock van Straftegt. Lib. iii, cpt. i, sec. i, pp. 676, 677.
- Art. 84. Whosover shall, by hostile acts not approved by the government, expose the state to a declaration of war, shall be punished with banishment, and if war be actually carried out, he shall be punished with transportation.
- Art. 85. Whosoever shall, by acts not approved by the government, expose Frenchmen* to reprisals, shall be punished with banishment.
[573] *Note.—It will be observed that the above articles, translated from the existing code of the Netherlands, are an exact transcript from the code pénal of France, which was introduced into the Netherlands at the time of the annexion *of the Netherlands to France, and, of course, all the commentaries on the subject of the French code, and of the other continental codes, are applicable to that of the Netherlands.
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