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SMUGGLING
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Eng. smeogan, smugan, to creep, with the See also:idea
of secrecy), a See also:breach of the See also:revenue See also:laws either by the importation or the exportation of prohibited goods or by the evasion of customs duties on goods liable to See also:duty
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Legislation on the subject in See also:England has been very active from the 14th See also:century down-wards
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In the reign of See also:Edward III. the illicit introduction of See also:base See also:coin from abroad led to the See also:provision of the See also:Statute of Treasons 131, making it See also:treason to import counterfeit See also:money as the money called " Lushburgh." Such importation is still an offence, though no longer treason
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After the Statute of Treasons a vast number of acts dealing with smuggling. were passed, most of which will be found recited in the repealing See also:act of 1825
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In the 18th and the See also:early years of the 19th century, smuggling (chiefly of See also:wine, See also:spirits, See also:tobacco and See also:bullion). was so generally practised in See also:Great See also:Britain as to become a See also:kind of See also:national failing
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The prevalence of the offence may be judged from the See also:report of See also:Sir J
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See also:Cope's See also:committee in 1732 upon the frauds on the revenue
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The smuggler of the 18th century finds an apologist in See also:Adam See also: Smuggled and prohibited goods are liable to forfeiture . See also:Officers of customs have a right of See also:search of vessels and persons . Fraudulent evasion or attempted evasion of customs duties renders the offender subject to forfeit either See also:treble the value of the goods or £See also:loo at the See also:election of the commissioners of customs . Heavy penalties are incurred by resistance to officers of customs, See also:rescue of persons or goods, assembling to run goods, signalling smuggling vessels, See also:shooting at vessels, boats, or officers of the See also:naval or revenue service, cutting adrift customs vessels, offering goods for See also:sale under pretence of being smuggled, &c . Penalties may he recovered either by See also:action or See also:information in the See also:superior courts or by See also:summary proceedings . In criminal proceedings the See also:defendant is competent and compellable to give See also:evidence . The See also:Merchant See also:Shipping Act 1894 makes any See also:seaman or apprentice, after conviction for smuggling whereby loss or damage is caused to the See also:master of owner of a See also:ship, liable to pay to such master or owner such a sum as is sufficient to reimburse the master or owner for such loss or damage, and the whole or a proportional See also:part of his See also:wages may be retained in See also:satisfaction of this liability . Additional provisions as to smuggling are also contained in the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1879, and the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1881 . A smuggling See also:contract is generally illegal . But it may be valid, and the vendor may recover the See also:price of goods, even though he knew-the buyer intended them to he smuggled, unless he actually See also:aids in the smuggling so as to become particeps criminis . Contracts to defraud the revenue of a See also:foreign See also:state are, according to See also:English decisions, not illegal . There is a See also:German decision, more consonant with See also:international morality, to the opposite effect .
The penalties for smuggling in the United States will be found mainly in tit. xxxiv. ch. io of the Revised Statutes
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The seaman guilty' of smuggling is liable to the same penalty as in England, and in addition to imprisonment for twelve months, s
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See See also:Stephen Dowell's See also:History of See also:Taxation (2nd ed., 1888), and See also:Luke See also:Owen See also:Pike's History of Crime in England (1873-1876); and for See also:general accounts of smuggling see W
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See also:Chester, See also:Chronicles of the Customs See also:Department (1885) ; H
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See also:Shore, Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways (1892); See also:Alton and See also: |
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