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The penal laws were, according to Edmund Burke, "a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."
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Most Penal Laws were repealed or disused by the late 18th century. As late as 1834 the officiant at an unlicensed Catholic–Protestant marriage had a sentence of death recorded, albeit commuted to 18 months' imprisonment. [7] The Criminal Law Act 1827 allowed judges to sentence to transportation for many hitherto capital crimes. [4]