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Criminal trespass
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trespass
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Unlawful assembly
Second.-To resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process; or Third.-To commit any mischief of criminal trespass, or other offence; or Fourth.-By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person to
Offence
viz.:- (1) Treasons; (2) Felonies; and (3) Misdemeanours. See several titles. Consult Russell on Crimes; Archbolds' or Roscoe's Criminal Evidence. It means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force
Settled possession
and effective possession of a person, even if he is a trespasser, who gets the right under the criminal law to defend his property against attack even by the true owner, Puran Singh v. State of Punjab, … has been used to mean such clear and effective possession of a person, even if he is a trespasser, who gets the right under the criminal law to defend his property against attack even by the true
Information
committed in the lands or other possessions of the Crown. It is instituted to redress private wrongs, while criminal information are resorted to punish public wrongs, or heinous misdemeanors. See EX OFFICIO INFORMATIONS; and (English) Crown Suits … Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 104). The most usual information are, in cases of intrusion, for trespasses on Crown lands; debt, for Crown moneys due upon breaches of penal statutes; and in rem, when any
King's Bench
corpus it protected the liberty of the subject by speedy and summary interposition. It took cognizance both of criminal and civil causes: the former in what is called the Crown side or Crown office, the letter in … exception of real actions and suits concerning the revenue. Its jurisdiction in civil action was formerly limited to trespass or injuries said to have been committed vi et armis, but by means of fictitious proceedings called Bill
Caveat actor
Caveat actor. The Criminal Law of England supposes that a man intends the natural and probable consequences of his act. But in … excuse him, if a person suffers injury he must found his action either on contract or tort, e.g., trespass or negligence on the part of the defendant. This is the theory of the law, though in practice
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