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Attempt [fr. tentare, Lat.; tenter, temter, tempter, O. Fr. to try], an endeavour to commit a crime or unlawful act. Persons indicted for a felony or misdemeanour may be found guilty only of an attempt to commit the same. (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1851, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, s. 9In criminal law means an overt act that is done with the intent to commit a crime but that falls short of completing the crime. Attempt is an inchoate offence distinct from the attempted crime, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 123.What constitutes an 'attempt' is a mixed question of law and fact, depending largely on the circumstances of the particular case. 'Attempt' defies a precise and exact definition. Broadly speaking, all crimes which consist of the commission of affirmative acts are preceded by some covert or overt conduct which may be divided into three stages. The first stage exists when the culprit first entertains the idea or intention to commit an offence. In the second stage, he makes prep...
attempt
attempt : the crime of having the intent to commit and taking action in an effort to commit a crime that fails or is prevented called also criminal attempt see also impossibility NOTE: There is no settled answer to how close to completing a crime a person must be to be guilty of attempt, but attempt must generally consist of more than preparation. ...
Attempt to commit an offence
Attempt to commit an offence, is an act, or a series of acts, which leads inevitable to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be an act done in part-execution of a criminal design, amounting to more than mere preparation. An attempt to commit an offence can be said to being when the preparations are complete and the culprit commences to do something with the intention of committing the offence and which is step towards the commission of the offence. The moment he commences to do an act with the necessary intention, he commences his attempt to commit the offence, Koppula Venkat Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2004) 3 SCC 602....
Attempt to commit crime
Attempt to commit crime, an attempt to commit an offence is an act, or a series of acts, which leads inevitably to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be an act done in part-execution of a criminal design, amounting to more than mere preparation, but falling short of actual consummation, and, possessing, except for failure to consummate, all the elements of the substantive crime. In other words, an attempt consists in itthe intent to commit a crime, falling short of, its actual commission or consummation/completion, Koppula Venkata Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2004) 3 SCC 602 (606); see also Aman Kumar v. State of Haryana, (2004) 4 SCC 379. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 511)...
criminal attempt
criminal attempt : attempt ...
Obtaining or attempting to obtain
Obtaining or attempting to obtain, the words 'obtaining' or 'attempting to obtain' can certainly include threat, K.P. Sinha v. Aftabuddin, AIR 1955 Pat 453 (456). (Indian Penal Code, s. 161)The word 'obtains' does not eliminate the idea of acceptance of what is given or offered to be given, though it connotes also an element of effort on the part of the receiver. One may accept money that is offered, or solicit payment of a bribe, or extort the bribe by threat or coercion; in each case, he obtains a pecuniary advantage by abusing his position as a public servant. The word 'obtains' is used in ss. 161 and 165 of the Penal Code, Ram Krishan v. State of Delhi, AIR 1956 SC 476 (478): (1956) SCR 182. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5(1)(d)]...
Whoever attempts to commit an offence
Whoever attempts to commit an offence, the expression 'whoever attempts to commit an offence' in s. 511 can only mean whoever intends to do a certain act with the intent or knowledge necessary for the commission of that offence, Om Prakah v. State of Punjab, AIR 1961 SC 1782 (1785): (1962) 2 SCR 254. (Indian Penal Code, s. 511)...
attempted
attempted : characterized by an intent to commit and effort taken to commit a specified crime that fails or is prevented [ forgery] ...
Choke, attempt to
Choke, attempt to. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 21, and GARROTTING....
Contempt of court
Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt.--A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or dignity of a Court, which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which, without such gross insolence or direct opposition, plainly tend to create a universal disregard of their authority. Contempts may be divided into acts of contempt committed in the Court itself (in facie curi') and out of Court. Among the former are all unseemly behaviour (for which, and which only (see Reg. v. Lefroy, (1873) LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1888), as talking boisterously, applauding any part of the proceedings, refusing to be sworn or to answer a question as a witness, interfering with the business of the Court on the part of a person who has no right to...
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