Sir James Fitzjames. History of the Criminal Law of England (1883). Radzinowicz, Sir Leon. A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration...

English criminal law concerns offences, their prevention and the consequences, in England and Wales. Criminal conduct is considered to be a wrong against...

by: Fundamental Laws of England History of English land law History of English contract law History of English criminal law History of trial by jury in...

Criminal damage in English law was originally a common law offence. The offence was largely concerned with the protection of dwellings and the food supply...

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures...

defined by the criminal law of each relevant jurisdiction. While many have a catalogue of crimes called the criminal code, in some common law nations no such...

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property...

Common law offences are crimes under English criminal law, the related criminal law of some Commonwealth countries, and under some U.S. state laws. They...

The omissions of individuals are generally not criminalised in English criminal law, save in many instances of a taking on of a duty of care, having contractual...

French criminal law is "the set of legal rules that govern the State's response to offenses and offenders". It is one of the branches of the juridical...

Throughout the history of criminal justice, evolving forms of punishment, added rights for offenders and victims, and policing reforms have reflected changing...

In English law, the defence of necessity recognises that there may be situations of such overwhelming urgency that a person must be allowed to respond...

Although the legal system of Singapore is a common law system, the criminal law of Singapore is largely statutory in nature and historically derives largely...

its substantive counterpart, South African criminal law, is applied. It has its basis mainly in English law. When the British occupied the Cape permanently...

reputations. A "tort" is a wrong in civil law, rather than criminal law, that usually requires a payment of money to make up for damage that is caused...

The criminal law of the United States is a manifold system of laws and practices that connects crimes and consequences. In comparison, civil law addresses...

Wolf's successful Law & Order franchise. Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the major case squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City...

the possibility of a criminal code. The commission reports in 1835 and there are seven more reports over the next decade. A Criminal Law Code Bill is introduced...

of Crime and Criminal Justices and the Historical Analysis of Criminal Law" in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (eds....

Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law. The history of defamation law in England is somewhat...

The criminal law of Canada is under the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada. The power to enact criminal law is derived from...

manslaughter is a criminal offence in English law, being an act of homicide committed by a company or organisation. In general, in English criminal law, a juristic...

A criminal record (not to be confused with a police record or arrest record) is a record of a person's criminal convictions history. The information included...

United States, where physicians were the leading advocates of abortion criminalization laws, some of them argued that advances in medical knowledge showed...

law can be contrasted with criminal law, which deals with criminal wrongs that are punishable by the state. While criminal law aims to punish individuals...

South African criminal law is the body of national law relating to crime in South Africa. In the definition of Van der Walt et al., a crime is "conduct...

reclassified by law as murder; and that any deaths resulting from acts of a criminal during the crime could cause culpability as murder on the part of all his...

In English criminal law, public nuisance is an act, condition or thing that is illegal because it interferes with the rights of the general public. In...

Criminal Law Act 1722, or the Criminal Law Act 1723, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids...

Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781111138905. "Section 4.1: Early History of Policing | Criminal Justice". Dobrin...