Legal Term: TO ADMINISTER, ADMINISTERING

Definition: The stat. 9 G. IV. c. 31, S. 11, enacts "that if any person unlawfully and maliciously shall administer, or attempt to administer to any person, or shall cause to be taken by any person any poison or other destructive things," &c. every such offender, &c. In a case which arose under this statute, it was decided that to constitute the act of administering the poison, it was not absolutely necessary there should have been a delivery to the party poisoned, but that if she took it from a place where it had been put for her by the defendant, and any part of it went into her stomach, it was an administering. 4 Carr. & Payne, 369, S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 423, 1 Moody"s C. C. 114, Carr. Crim. L. 23. Vide Attempt to Persuade.

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