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Concealment (Criminal)
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Misprision
1 Hale, P.C. 374; 4 Steph. Com. Besides the last-described offence, the mere concealment of a felony is criminal, and is called misprision of felony; but if there be an assent, this makes the person assenting either … 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
Resetter
One who receives or conceals as stolen goods or criminal
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Sessions of the peace
1925. (10) Bigamy, and offences against the law relating to marriage. (11) Abduction of women and girls. (12) Concealment of birth. (13) Offences of bankrupts. This restriction is abolished. See below. (14) Libels. (15) Bribery, except under … oyer and terminer, and a Court of record, and not a Court of inferior jurisdiction. The jurisdictional is criminal an civil, and arises from the commission of the peace itself, as settled under 18 Edw. 3, c.
Fraud
new species of fraud. Concealed fraud. In the case of a designed fraud, whereby any person is, by concealment of material facts, prevented from asserting his title to land or rent, the limitation of time (12 years) … he shall act upon it to his legal injury. In Concise Oxford Dictionary, it has been defined as criminal deception, use of false representation to gain unjust advantage; dishonest artifice or trick. According to Halsbury's Law of
Felony
panel (English) (County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 29, as controlled by the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), s. 3), and the jurors are accordingly sworn … that there are larger powers of arrest in the case of felony; that it is a crime to conceal a felony (see MISPRISION); that felony must be pleaded to personally; that a jury trying felony may not
Misdemeanour
person on an indictment for felony could be convicted of a misdemeanour; but various statutory enactments--.g., the (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100), s. 9, by which a person indicted for any … Edn., p. 1014. Misdemeanour, a crime less than felony, as perjury, obtaining money by false pretences, endeavouring to conceal a birth, and fradulently obtaining property on credit and not having paid for it within four months of
search
that the government may not use an administrative inspection scheme as a pretext to search for evidence of criminal violations "People v. Madison, 520 N.E.2d 374 (1988)"] called also administrative inspection inspection regulatory search see also probable … conducted by a law enforcement officer for the purpose of ensuring against threats to safety (as from a concealed weapon) or sometimes to prevent the destruction of evidence regulatory search : administrative search in this entry shake·down
Infanticide
infanticide (and not murder) and punishable as for manslaughter. The jury may, however, find the woman guilty of concealment of birth under (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 100), s. 60, or … Infanticide, the killing of a child immediately after it is born. The felonious destruction of the feticide, or criminal abortion. In every case in which an infant is found dead, and its death becomes the subject of
Directors
Co., (1908) 1 Ch 84; but they were under no personal liability except for fraud, as to the criminal liability for which see Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 81 et seq., and
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