1855 Ky. Acts 96-7
| dc.coverage.spatial | Kentucky | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:41:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T19:17:16Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:51:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1855 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ch. 636: Prohibited vending, buying, selling, or dealing in colts, brass knuckles, slung-shots, or any imitation or substitute therefor. Violators fined twenty-five dollars. Any use of the above to strike, beat, wound, or bruise another shall be punished by forfeit of the weapon and a fine of one hundred dollars to go to the victim. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | § 1. That any person or persons who may hereafter be found guilty of vending, buying, selling, or dealing in the weapons popularly known as colts, brass knuckles, slung-shots, or any imitation or substitute therefor, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every offense so committed-one-half thereof to be applied to the jury fund, the other to the prosecutor. § 2, That should any person strike, beat, wound or bruise another, by using any of the above named weapons, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars to the party or person so struck, wounded or bruised,which party shall have his action at law in any Circuit Court of this Commonwealth; and in default of the payment thereof, said offender or offenders shall be imprisoned in the city or county jail until all costs and damages are fully paid. § 3. Should any person be killed by the weapons aforesald, or any one of them, or in any other way except in self-defence, the wife, if he has no wife, shall have an action against all such as were in anywise concerned in such killing, and recover such damages as a jury may deem right; and in default of tile payment of such damages, the defendant or defendants may be imprisoned, as in other cases of trespass to the person. § 4. This not shall be given in charge to the grand juries of this Commonwealth. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited vending, buying, selling, or dealing in colts, brass knuckles, slung-shots, or any imitation or substitute therefor. Violators fined twenty-five dollars. Any use of the above to strike, beat, wound, or bruise another shall be punished by forfeit of the weapon and a fine of one hundred dollars to go to the victim. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3939 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyHathi | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3683091&view=1up&seq=118 | |
| dc.subject | COMMITTING CRIME W/ WEAPON | |
| dc.subject | TRANSFER | |
| dc.title | 1855 Ky. Acts 96-7 |