INCONTINENCE, in the eye of the law, is of divers kinds; as in cases of bigamy, rapes, sodomy, or buggery, getting bastards; all which are punished by statute. See 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 6. 18 Eliz. cap. 7. 1 Jac. I. cap. 11. Incontinency of priests is punishable by the ordinary, by imprisonment, &c. 1 Hen. VII. cap. 4.