Element - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: elementElemental
Pertaining to the elements first principles and primary ingredients or to the four supposed elements of the material world as elemental air...
essential element
essential element : an element of a tort or esp. a crime that must be alleged in the complaint or charging instrument (as the indictment) in order to make out a prima facie case ...
Elementally
According to elements literally as the words ldquoTake eat this is my bodyrdquo elementally understood...
element
element : one of the constituent parts (as a particular act, a mental state, or an attendant circumstance) of a crime as defined by statute that the prosecution must prove to win a conviction ...
Elementalism
The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers...
Elementality
The condition of being composed of elements or a thing so composed...
Elementation
Instruction in the elements or first principles...
Element
Element, A constituent part that must be provedfor the claim to succeed, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 538....
kurchatovium
A transuranic element of atomic number 104 symbol Ku also called rutherfordium symbol Rf It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104 Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104 isotope 260 half life 03 seconds in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium However investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260 they reported finding isotope 257 with a half life of 4 5 seconds isotope 259 with a half life of 3 4 seconds and isotope 258 with a shorter half life...
diminished capacity
diminished capacity 1 : an abnormal mental condition that renders a person unable to form the specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime (as first-degree murder) but that does not amount to insanity called also diminished responsibility partial insanity compare insanity, irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test 2 a : a defense based on a claim of diminished capacity b : the doctrine that diminished capacity may negate an element of a crime NOTE: If diminished capacity is shown, negating an element of the crime with which a defendant is charged, the defendant can only be convicted of a lesser offense that does not include the element. ...
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