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Crimen raptus

Crimen raptus, rape. See RAPE....


Black mail

Black mail [fr. maille, Fr., a small piece of money], a certain rent of money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence and allied with robbers and brigands, for protection from the devastations of the latter. It was in fact a species of insurance. This was rendered illegal by 43 Eliz. C. 13. The same practice prevailed in Scotland, where it was also illegal. Also rent paid in cattle, otherwise called neat-gild; and all rents not paid in silver are called reditus nigri (black mail or rents), by way of distinction from reditus albi (blanch-firmes, or white-rents).But the term is used in modern times to signify extortion of money by threatening letters or threats to accuse of crime--an offence punishable, if the crime is punishable, by death or penal servitude for not less than seven years, or be an attempt at rape, or be an 'infamous crime,' i.e., sodomy, etc., by penal servitude for life, and in the case of a male under sixteen...


Carnal knowledge

Carnal knowledge. As to meaning, see (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 63; R. v. Marsden, 1891 (2) QB 149, and R. v. Russen, (1777) 1 East, PC 438. See tits. RAPE; ABUSING CHILDREN.Means the penetration to any, the slightest degree of male organ of generation, Dinesh v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 2006 SC 1267 [Indian Penal Code, s. 376]...


Military offences

Military offences, those offences which are cognizable by the Courts military-as insubordination, sleeping on guard, desertion, etc, as well as any civil crime with special provisions in the case of manslaughter, treason, felony or rape. Hals. L.E., tit. 'Royal Forces...


Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English)

Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English), provides, with cer-tain exceptions, that all sales of corn (i.e., wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, and the bran and meal therefrom) shall be by weight and in terms of and by reference to the one hundred weight of 112 imperial standard pounds, otherwise transactions are null and void. The Act also applies to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seeds of grass, clover, vetches, Swedes, field turnips, rape, filed cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax and sainfoin. By s. 5 ibid. the price and value under any Act, award, or instrument of an imperial bushel shall have effect as if the price or value were calculated on that of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty of barley and thirty nine of oats....


Criminal Law

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....


Judicial separation

Judicial separation, granted either to husband or wife on the ground of adultery, cruelty, rape, sodomy, bestiality, non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, or desertion without cause for two years and upwards [(English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185]; also by justices, under the Married Women (Maintenance) Acts, 1895 to 1925, to the wife, on the conviction of the husband of aggravated assault, or on the ground of persistent cruelty, forcing her to live apart from him, or on the ground of his being an habitual drunkard [(English) Licensing Act, 1902,s. 5]; and relief can also be obtained by a husband where the wife is an habitual drunkard (ibid.). Under Maintenance Acts the husband can be ordered to make weekly payments to his wife, which can be enforced by imprisonment [R. v. Richardson, (1909) 2 KB 851], but her judgment creditor cannot obtain equitable execution by the appointment of a receiver of such payments, Paquine v. Snary, (1909) 1 KB 688. See also Sum...


Viol

Viol [old law, Fr.], rape, indecent assault, Barr. on Stat. 139....


Offence of

Offence of, Rape in its simplest term is 'the ravishment of a woman, without her consent, by force, fear or fraud, or as 'the carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will. (Co. Litt 123-b)...


Penetration

Penetration, is the sine qua non for an offence of rape. In order to constitute penetration, there must be evidence clear and cogent to prove that some part of the virile member of the accused was within the labia of the pudendum of the woman, no matter how little, Aman Kumar v. State of Haryana, (2004) SCC 379: 2004 SCC (Cri) 1266....



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