Victim - Law Dictionary Search Results
lying in wait
lying in wait : holding oneself in a concealed position to watch and wait for a victim for the purpose of making an unexpected attack and murdering or inflicting bodily injury on the victim
hostile environment sexual harassment
hostile environment sexual harassment : sexual harassment that has the effect of unreasonably interfering with a victim's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment that affects the victim's psychological well-being called
fresh complaint rule
fresh complaint rule : a rule of evidence: the testimony of a witness to whom a victim of a sexual offense made a fresh complaint is admissible to corroborate the victim's testimony called also fresh
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battery
harm (as by striking or by administering a poison or drug) that is not consented to by the victim compare assault aggravated battery : criminal battery that is accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : criminal battery
assault
offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear of such harm or contact compare battery 2 : the crime of assault accompanied by battery
Actus reus
from the conduct which produced the result. For example, in a simple case of murder it is the victim's death (brought about by the conduct of the murderer) which is the actus reus in the mens rea
electric chair
a device used for execution of criminals consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body This method of killing is called
Guillotine
which slides in vertical guides is raised by a cord and let fall upon the neck of the victim
Hysteria
exaggerated and the will power correspondingly diminished so that the patient loses control over the emotions becomes the victim of imaginary sensations and often falls into paroxism or fits
Immolate
To sacrifice to offer in sacrifice to kill as a sacrificial victim
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