Back in 1861, the Court of Common Pleas in England confirmed that the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University had the power to imprison people for crimes the university had created.
Participation can include encouragement, promotion or even reporting.
A prize fight is any planned fight between two people with hands or fists, but without proper boxing gloves or without proper authority under amateur boxing laws. Section 339 lays down a maximum five years in prison for anyone who steals lumber found adrift on the water or that has washed up on the shore. The ancient profession of loan sharking is a criminal offence, defined by section 347 as charging an effective annual interest rate of over 60 per cent on credit. That may seem like a lot, but people sometimes get themselves in trouble by charging a much smaller percentage for a loan over a short time period. Just one per cent interest on a loan that is repaid within a few days can work out to over 60 per cent a year.