Civil Offence - Law Dictionary Search Results

the causes producing a mixed Obligation--that is, partly natural and partly civil, as a contract, quasi-contract, crime or offence. Contracts made by words are called Stipulations, the general principles of which are first explained, in order to … second, they are corporeal or incorporeal. The property in things is acquired either by Natural Law or by Civil Law. Title II. explains the second Division of Things, which are either corporeal or incorporeal: and here real

Piracy

subject. Formerly this offence was only cognizable by the Admiralty Courts, which proceed by the rules of the civil law, but it being inconsistent with the liberties of the nation that any man's life should be taken

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Blasphemy

more credible witnesses. The punishment is, for a first offence, disability for and forfeiture of any office 'ecclesiastical, civil, or military'; for a second, disability to sue in any action, or to be guardian of any child,

Military offences

offences which are cognizable by the Courts military-as insubordination, sleeping on guard, desertion, etc, as well as any civil crime with special provisions in the case of manslaughter, treason, felony or rape. Hals. L.E., tit. 'Royal Forces … Military offences, those offences which are cognizable by the Courts military-as insubordination, sleeping on guard, desertion, etc, as well as

Riding or driving furiously

of any passenger), punishable by fine up to 5l. (10l. if the owner) in addition to liability to civil action. See also Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28: Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54; Offences against … Riding or driving furiously, an offence against the Highway Act, 1835, s. 78 (if it endanger the life or limb of any passenger), punishable

Delictum

Delictum, challenge propter. See CHALLENGE. A delict, tort, wrong, injury or offence. Actions ex facie are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from

Westminster the First, Statute of

rape on the footing to which it has been lately restored, as a most grievous but not capital offence, and embraces the subject of procedure, civil and criminal matters, introducing many regulations to render it cheap, simple, … a Code rather than an Act, is divided into fifty-one chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from civil jurisdiction, it protects the property of the Church from the violence and spoliation of the king and the

Act

a deed, Black's law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24. Is used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts, and words which refer to act done extend also to illegal

Justice of the peace

Justice of the peace, means 'A local judicial officer having jurisdiction over minor criminal offences and minor civil functions (such as administering oaths and performing marriage ceremonies, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 869. … Justice of the peace, means 'A local judicial officer having jurisdiction over minor criminal offences and minor civil functions (such as administering oaths and performing marriage ceremonies, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

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