Victim - Law Dictionary Search Results
Libation
The act of pouring a liquid or liquor usually wine either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice in honor of some deity also the wine or liquid thus poured out
Mactation
The act of killing a victim for sacrifice
manic disorder
An affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
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Scaphism
An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians by confining the victim in a trough with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like and exposed to the
Accomplice
planning or committing it, (Wharton's Criminal Law) --it is well-settled that a prosecutrix complaining of having been a victim of the offence of rape is not an accomplice after the crime. There is no rule of law
Crime of violence
Panel (CA), (2001) 2 WLR 1452. May be committed when there is no use of force, but the victim is put in reasonable fear of immediate physical harm, Regina (August) v. Criminal Injuries Panel (CA), (2001) 2
Battery
harm (as by striking or by administering a poison or drug) that is not consented to by the victim, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 46.
Caveat actor
LR 3 HL 330; with that exception in which nothing short of an act of God, or the victim's default, will excuse him, if a person suffers injury he must found his action either on contract or
Caveat viator
some duty to passers-by or users of the premises. The degree of duty varies according to whether the victim of the accident has a contract involving care or even absolute assurance or warranty on the part of
Child in need of care and protection
or trafficking, (viii) who is being or is likely to be abused for unconscionable gains, (ix) who is victim of any armed conflict, civil commotion or natural calamity. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, (56
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