Attempt To Commit Crime - Law Dictionary Search Results
Last proximate act test
common law test for the crime of attempt, based on whether the defendant does the final act necessary to commit an offence (such as pulling the trigger of a gun, not merely aiming if). This test has been
Reward
compensate for expense, exertion, and loss of time, and by s. 30, if a man be killed in attempting to take such offenders the Court may order compensation to his wife or relatives. See Archbold, Crim. Pleading, … 1826, s. 28, the Courts may order the sheriff of the county, in which certain offences have been committed, to pay the person active in or towards the apprehension of persons charged with felonies a reasonable sum … discontinued for several years in England on the ground that persons committed crimes for the purpose of obtaining them by false accusations, and the Home
assault
from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and … injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : a criminal assault accompanied by the intent to commit or the commission of a felony (as rape) compare simple assault in this entry assault with intent :
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Justifiable homicide
circumstances. (3) Where committed for the prevention of any forcible or atrocious crime, but not if the crime is unaccompanied by force. If two shipwrecked … his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) In case of a … malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his country. (2) It may be committed for the advancement of public justice, as in the following instances: (a) Where an officer or his assistant,
Consideration
illegality exists whenever the consideration is founded upon a transaction which violates public policy or morality:'as a contract to commit, conceal, or compound a crime; a contract for illicit cohabitation; or a contract in fraud of the rights … A contract founded upon an impossible consideration is void; for the law will not compel a man to attempt to do that which is not within the limits of human capacity. Lex neminem cogit ad vana aut impossibilia;
Terrorism
agencies to tackle it under the ordinary penal law. Experience has shown us that 'terrorism' is generally an attempt to acquire or maintain power or control by intimidation and causing fear and helplessness in the minds of the … State of Maharashtra, (1984) 4 SCC 494. (ii) Terrorism means the act of terrorising; unlawful acts of violence committed in an organised attempt to overthrow a government or like purposes, State of Punjab v. Sukhpal Singh, AIR … of the intended terrorist activity travels beyond the effect of an ordinary crime capable of being punished under the ordinary penal law of the land
impossibility
of an intended criminal act NOTE: Factual impossibility is not a complete defense and does allow prosecution for attempt or for another inchoate offense. For example, if the defendant constructed a bomb that failed to explode, factual … impossibility is founded on the principle that an act is not a crime unless there is a law prohibiting it. … on or with reference to a law ;specif : a complete defense to criminal liability based on the commitment of acts that are not criminal or illegal NOTE: Legal impossibility is founded on the principle that an
Murder
return a verdict of child destruction if satisfied that such offence has been committed. As to punishment for attempted murder, see R. v. White, (1910) 2 KB 124. A murderer is absolutely disqualified from deriving any benefit … implied'; see 4 Bl. Com. 195. Consult Russell on Crimes; Arch. Cr. Pl.; Steph. Dig. (1) The person committing the offence must be conscious of doing wrong, and able to discern between good and evil. See IDIOT; … either express or implied'; see 4 Bl. Com. 195. Consult Russell on Crimes; Arch. Cr. Pl.; Steph. Dig. (1) The person committing the offence must
Abet
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 … by wilful concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, a thing to be done, is said to instigate the doing of that thing.
Piracy
c. 88) (which repealed various previous enactments), it is provided by s. 2 that:- 2. Whosoever, with intent to commit or at the time or of immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect … be omitted and new passages introduced, yet, if these alterations be merely colourable, and it is really an attempt to profit by taking the ideas of another, the publication is a piracy. An author who has been led
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