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impossibility
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
arrest
of being a citizen NOTE: Under common law, a citizen may make an arrest for any felony actually committed, or for a breach of the peace committed in his or her presence. civil arrest : the arrest
alibi
of having been somewhere other than at the scene of a crime at the time the crime was committed ;also : the fact or state of having been elsewhere at the time a crime was committed NOTE:
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accessory
before the fact are usually considered principals. 2 : a person who knowing that a felony has been committed aids, assists, or shelters the offender with the intent to defeat justice called also accessory after the fact
Guarantee
Guarantee, he to whom a guaranty is made; also, and more commonly, the guaranty itself. See GUARANTY. The assurance that a contract or legal act will be duly carried out; Something given or existing as security,...
not guilty by reason of insanity
by a jury in a criminal case that finds that the defendant was insane at the time of committing the crime as determined by application of the test for insanity used in the jurisdiction compare guilty but
Incriminating circumstance
Incriminating circumstance, means a situation or fact showing either that a crime was committed or that a particular person committed it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 771.
Qu' est eadem
is the same). In trespass and other actions, when the plea necessarily stated the trespass to have been committed at some other time, place, etc., than that laid in the declaration, it was usual, before the conclusion
Independent corroboration
Independent corroboration, independent evidence must not only make it safe to believe that the crime was committed but must in some way reasonably connect or had to connect the accused with it by confirming in
Trespasser
Trespasser, referred. [Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), s. 45] One who commits a trespass. In general a person owes no duty to a trespasser, the rule being that a man
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