Rape

Ravishment

Ravishment, forcible violation. See ABDUCTION and RAPE.--forcible seizure and carrying off of another person (esp. a woman), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

Stupration

Stupration [fr. stupro, Lat.], rape, violation....

Assault with intent, means any of the several assaults that are carried out with an additional criminal purpose in mind, such as assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to rob, assault with intent to rape, and assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. There are modern statutory inventions that are often found in State Criminal Codes, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 110....

Violation of women

Violation of women. See RAPE....

Westminster the First, Statute of

Westminster the First, Statute of (3 Edw. 1, AD 1275). This statute, which deserves the name of a Code rather than an Act, is divided into fifty-one chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from civil jurisdiction, it protects the property of the Church from the violence and spoliation of the king and the nobles, and provides for freedom of popular elections, because sheriffs, coroners, and conservators of the peace were still chosen by the freeholders in the county Court, and attempts had been made to influence the election of knights of the shire, from the time when they were instituted. It contains a declaration to enforce the enactment of Magna Charta against excessive fines, which might operate as perpetual imprisonment; enumerates and corrects the abuses of tenures, particularly as to marriage of wards; regulates the levying of tolls, which were imposed arbitrarily by the barons, and by cities and boroughs; corrects and retrains the power of the king's escheator and...

Bestiality

Bestiality, that her husband has, since the solemnization of the marriage, been guilty of rape, sodomy or bestiality defined. [Special Marriage Act, s. 27(1A)]Bestiality, the crime of men with beasts, punishable under the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 61, by penal servitude for life, or for not less than ten years, but this minimum term is abolished, and power is given to inflict imprisonment for two years or less, by the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1891.Sexual activity between a human and an animal; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the crime of engaging in sexual relations with an animal, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 49.Means the offence of buggery committed with a beast, R. v. Higson, (1984) 6 Cr App R(S) 20....

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Age

Age, the criminal responsibility of males and females, and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern good from evil (malitia supplet 'tatem-malice supplies age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of the age of 14 might be capitally punished for any capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the age of 14 years is presumed impotent as well as doli incapax, and since the presumption of impotence cannot be rebutted, R. v. Phillips, 8 C& P 736, he cannot be convicted of an offence involving carnal knowledge, except as a principal in the second degree in a rape, or the like, where if he has a mischievous discretion, the presumption of impotence will not excuse him from aiding and assisting in the commission of the offence. He may, it seems, be convict...

shield law

shield law : a law that prevents or protects against disclosure or revelation of information: as a : rape shield law b : a law that protects journalists from disclosure of confidential news sources ...

age of consent

age of consent :the age at which a person is deemed competent by law to give consent esp. to sexual intercourse or marriage see also statutory rape compare emancipation, legal age ...

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