第29解

concealment of birth

【英文】Under the 1803 Act，the mother of a bastard tried for infanticide，if acquitted，could be convicted of a lesser charge，the misdemeanor of concealment of birth，punishable by up to two years imprisonment.In 1828，however，an act of Parliament reformed the law so that all women，including married women，were equally prosecutable for the crime of concealment.

【譯文】根據(jù)1803年之法律，一個(gè)未婚母親如被指控犯有殺嬰罪而受審，如果該罪行被赦免，她仍可能因藏匿死嬰這一較輕指控的輕罪而被判多達(dá)兩年的監(jiān)禁。然而，1828年的議會(huì)法案對(duì)此法律進(jìn)行了改革，規(guī)定包括已婚婦女在內(nèi)的所有婦女都可能面對(duì)藏匿死嬰罪的起訴。

【解釋】concealment of birth在法律上意為“藏匿死嬰罪”，而不是“隱藏出生”。

再如：

There is no significant difference in the number of cases reported for medicolegal investigation of criminal abortion and concealment of births before and after the Abortion Act which came into effect in 1997.〔譯文：1997年墮胎法生效前后，關(guān)于醫(yī)學(xué)和法律調(diào)查報(bào)道的非法墮胎罪和藏匿死嬰罪的案件數(shù)量上，沒有顯著差異。〕