Sodomy, an unnatural crime, is punishable with penal servitude for life, or any term not less than ten years, and the attempt to commit it is punishable with penal servitude from three to ten years. In Scotland it was till 1887 nominally a capital offence, though not punished except by penal servitude and imprisonment.
Sodomy
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 556
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