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Criminal Law. Consult Archbold's Criminal Pleading; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law'; Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law; Russell on Crimes; and see titles ARSON, ASSAULT, BURGLARY, EMBEZZLE-MENT, FALSE PRETENCES, LARCENY, MAN-SLAUGHTER, MURDER, RAPE, TREASON, and WOUNDING.The body of law defining offenses against the community at large, regulating how suspects are investigated, charged, and tried, and establishing punishment for convicted offenders, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English)
Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English). By the Act of 1885 the procuration of women under twenty-one, and illicit though un-resisted intercourse with girls between thirteen and sixteen, are made misdemeanours, brothel-keepers are made liable to summary proceedings, and prisoners charged with sexual offences are allowed to give evidence on their own behalf. The Act is amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act,1912, which empowers a constable to arrest without a warrant any person offending against the Act of 1885, provides the flogging offenders, and maks better provision for the suppression of brothels and prostitution. The Act of 1922 provides that the consent to an act of indecency by a child or young person under sixteen shall be no defence to a charge of indecent assault (s. 1). Reasonable cause to believe that a girl was over sixteen shall notbe a defence to a charge undr ss. 5 and 6 of the Act of 1885 (i.e., defilement of a girl between thirteen and sixteen, or permi...
habitual criminal law
habitual criminal law : a law that imposes greater penalties if a convicted defendant has previously been convicted of one or more crimes NOTE: Some such laws have been challenged on the ground of violating the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or on the ground of being an ex post facto law. ...
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Reward
Reward, a recompense for anything done.Something of value, usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321.By the (English) Criminal Law Act, 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 to 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, etc., 25th Edn., pp. 276 et seq.Corruptly taking a reward for helping to the recovery of stolen property without exercising all due diligence to cause the offender to be brought to trial is punishable by penal servitude up to seven years. [(English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 34, and cf. ...
presumption
presumption : an inference as to the existence of a fact not certainly known that the law requires to be drawn from the known or proven existence of some other fact conclusive presumption : a presumption that the law does not allow to be rebutted called also irrebuttable presumption compare rebuttable presumption in this entry mandatory presumption : a presumption that a jury is required by law to make upon proof of a given fact compare permissive presumption in this entry permissive presumption : an inference or presumption that a jury is allowed but not required to make from a given set of facts called also permissive inference compare mandatory presumption in this entry presumption of fact : a presumption founded on a previous experience or on general knowledge of a connection between a known fact and one inferred from it presumption of innocence : a rebuttable presumption in the favor of the defendant in a criminal action imposing on the prosecution the burden of proving g...
Civil nature
Civil nature, The word 'civil' according to dictionary means 'relating to the citizen as an individual; civil rights'. In Black's Law Dictionary it is defined as 'relating to private rights and remedies sought by civil actions as contrasted with criminal proceedings'. In law it is understood as an antonym of criminal. Historically the two broad classifications were civil and criminal. Revenue, tax and company etc. were added to it later. But they too pertain to the larger family of 'civil'. There is thus no doubt about the width of the word 'civil'. Its width has been stretched further by using the word 'nature' along with it. That is even those suits are cognizable which are not only civil but are even of civil nature. In Article 133 of the Constitution an appeal lies to this Court against any judgment, decree or order in a 'civil proceeding'. The word 'nature' has been defined as 'the fundamental qualities of a person or thing; identity or essential character; sort; kind; character'....
Attainder
Attainder [fr. attaindre, Fr. (attainder, O. F.-Roquef.); attingo, Lat., which signifies the apprehension of the object of a chase], the stain or corruption of the blood of a criminal capitally condemned; it is the immediate inseparable consequence, by the Common Law, of sentence of death being pronounced, or of outlawry for a capital offence. the criminal then becomes dead in law, technically called civiliter mortuus. It differs from conviction in that it is after judgment, whereas conviction isupon the verdict of guilty but before judgment pronounced, and may be quashed upon some point of law reserved, or judgment may be arrested. See Co. Litt. 390 b, 391 a.A descendant may now trace descent through an attainted ancestor by virtue of the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), s. 10; and by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 23), it is now provided that no conviction for treason or felony shall cause attainder or forfeiture. See BILL OF ATTAINDER....
Abduction
Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:-(a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or carnally know her or to cause her to be married or carnally known. (b) Where any person fradulently allures, takes away or detains with like intent such a woman under 21 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. (c) Where any person by force takes away or detains any woman being of age with like intent (Ib. s. 54). It is a misdemeanour:-(a) Where any person takes away an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having lawful charge of her (Ib. s. 55). A bona fid...
Anti-John law
Anti-John law, means a criminal law statute punishing prostitutes' customers, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 92....
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