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abet abet·ted abet·ting : to assist, encourage, instigate, or support with criminal intent in attempting or carrying out a crime often used in the phrase aid and abet abet·ment n abet·tor also abet·ter [ə-be-tər] n ...
Abet
Abet [from a (ad vel usque), and bedan, or beteren, to stir up or excite, Sax.], to maintain or patronise: to encourage or set on. The act is called abetment. An abettor or abettator is an instigator or setter on, one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed, Old Nat. Br. 21. See ACCESSARY.With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (1)]Defined. (Abetment of a thing.-A person abets the doing of a thing, who-First.-Instigates any person to do that thing; orSecondly.-Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; orThirdly.-Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal o...
aid
aid : to provide with what is useful in achieving an end [conspiracy to counsel or draft resisters "K. A. Cohen"] often used in the phrase aid and abet; see also abet vi : to be of use [aided in the commission of the crime] aid·er n n 1 : an act of aiding [render to the principal] 2 : help given ;esp : tangible means of assistance (as money or supplies) [ to the disabled] [giving and comfort to the enemy] ...
Dangerous person
Dangerous person, 'dangerous person' means a person, who either by himself or as a member of or leader of a gang, habitually commits, or attempts to commit or abets the commission of offences, punishable under Chapter XVI or Chapter XVII or Chapter XXII of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), or any of the offences punishable under Chapter V of the Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959); Rashidmiya alias Chhava Ahmedmiya v. Police Commissioner (1989) 3 SCC 321:AIR 1989 SC 1703 (1706).Means a person who habitually commits or attempts to commit or abets commission of offences, either by himself or as a member of or leader of a gang, Ayub v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071). [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)]...
Abortion
Abortion, a miscarriage, or the premature expulsion of the contents of the womb before the term of gestation is completed.By the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 100), s. 58, the unlawful administration of drugs or unlawful use of instruments, by a pregnant woman to herself, or (whether she be with child or not) by any person to her, with intent to procure miscarriage, is made felony, punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. A person charged under this s. may be convicted under the (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo 5, c. 34). By s. 59 of the Act of 1861, the unlawful procuring of drug or instrument with the intent that it may be used to procure miscarriage is a misdemeanour whether the woman be with child or not. Earlier Acts (see, e.g., 43 Geo. 3, c. 59) made the offence a capital felony, but applied only in case of the woman being quick with child. A woman can be convicted of conspiracy t...
Abusing children
Abusing children, having carnal intercourse with young girls. If the girl be under the age of 13 (formerly 10 and afterwards 12) years, the offences is a felony punishable with penal servitude for life; if the girl be above the age of 13 (formerly 10 and afterwards 12) and under 16 (formerly 12 and afterwards 13), the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment, with or without hard labour, to the extent of two years, (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. C. 69), repealing the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1875, repealing 24 & 25 Vict. C. 100, ss. 50, 51, which fixed lesser ages as above. The (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 56), amends the Act of 1885, so that in the case of the second of the above-mentioned offences, it shall be a sufficient defence if it shall be made to appear to the Court or jury that the person charged had reasonable cause to believe that the girl was of, or above the age of 16, but only if h...
Art and part
Art and part, a term in Scots Law. Signifies the aiding or abetting in the perpetration of a crime....
Bootlegger
Bootlegger, bootlegger means a person who distils, manufactures, stores, transports, imports, exports, sells or distributes any liquor, or a person knowingly expands any money or supplies or any other conveyance or material in support to doing any of the above things or a person who abets the doing of any such thing, Ayub v. S. N. Sinha, (1990) 4 SCC 552: AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071). [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(b)]...
Degree
Degree [fr. degre, Fr.; degrat, O. Fr.; gradus, Lat.], a step; the difference in relative importance of the same species, also to denote priorities in family relationships; the state of a person, as to be a barrister-at-law, or to be a Bachelor or Master of Arts of a University; in criminal law, an accused person is a principal in the first degree (i.e., the actual perpetrator of the crime) or in the second dgree (i.e., one who merely aids and abets).means a degree obtained by examination after a minimum of three years' study, although a research degree obtained by thesis, or a degree obtained by examination in less than three years may be considered on its merits, including, if necessary, the qualifications on which registration for the degree was based, Consolidated Regulations of the Four Inns of Court (1988) Sch. 2, Category II(a) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England 3(1), para 374, p. 290....
Misprision
Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight.All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever, and that, if the Crown so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only. And upon the same principle, while the court of Star Chamber existed, it was held that the sovereign might remit a prosecution for treason, and cause the delinquent to be censured in that Court, merely for a high misdemeanour; as in the case of Roger, Earl of Rutland, in 43 Eliz., concerned in Essex's rebellion. Every great misdemeanour, according to Coke, which has no certain term appointed by the law, is sometimes called a misprision.Misprisions are divided in the text-books into two kinds:-(1) Negative, the concealment of what ought to be revealed; such is misprision of treason, the bare knowledge and concealment of treason without any ...
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