Sacrilege in Europe
Definition of Sacrilege
The offence committed by a person who breaks into a place of divine worship and commits any felony therein, or who, being in a place of divine worship, commits any felony therein and breaks out of it. (Section 24, Larceny Act, 1916.) The maximum punishment is penal servitude for life
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Definition of Sacrilege is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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