offences against the person (an expression which, in particular, includes offences of violence) from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act....

countries as a legacy of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. Although most sexual offences will also be offences against the person, for various reasons...

The Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31) (also known as Lord Lansdowne's Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of...

to offences against the person. It is not a term of art. The Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Act, 1982 The Offences Against the Person Act, 1864...

The Act 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85, sometimes called the Offences against the Person Act 1837, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great...

The Offences against the Person Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 94) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then...

died in front of the Newgate Prison in London on 27 November. The Act was repealed by section 1 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4....

of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, or "Lord Lansdowne's Act", which retained capital punishment as a possible sentence for the crime. The Victorian...

and Wales only, that replaced the previous law on sodomy contained in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the 1885 Labouchere Amendment which...

The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 (c.44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It set the age of consent for male homosexual sexual...

The Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 is an Act of the Oireachtas which virtually codified the criminal law on offences against the person...

The Sexual Offences Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 69) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated the English criminal law relating...

offences against the person in theoretical basis and composition. Non-fatal offences against the person mainly derive from the Offences against the Person...

Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 creates the offence of assault, and section 3 of that Act creates the offence of assault...

The procurement of an abortion remains a criminal offence in Great Britain under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, although the Abortion Act provides...

Act 1834, and the whole section was repealed and replaced by section 3 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The Anatomy Act provided for the needs...

notable for the circumstances of its passage in Parliament. Under the Offences against the Person Act 1861, the age of consent was 12 (reflecting the common...

describe the severest forms of battery. It refers to two offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The distinction...

criminal offences is a partial categorization of English criminal law offences. Offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 Offences under the Computer...

of Ireland: A criminal offence under section 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, up to seven years' imprisonment. The Director of Public Prosecutions...

1875, the Offences Against the Person Act raised the age to 13 in Great Britain and Ireland, and ten years later the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 raised...

until the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 in England and Wales, the Criminal Justice Act 1980 in Scotland, and the Homosexual Offences Order 1982...

legislation from the European countries. Most notable is Britain's Offences Against the Person Act 1861, which outlined many crimes and named sodomy as one of...

detestable and abominable vice of buggery". The Offences against the Person Act 1861 specifically lowered the capital punishment for sodomy to life imprisonment...

suicide. Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 were repealed, and effectively superseded by the offence defined in section 22 of intentionally...

similar offence (see below). The offence is created by section 39 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance. It is triable on indictment and a person guilty...

statutory offence in England and Wales. The offence is created by section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003: (1) A person (A) commits an offence if— (a)...

held that the slightest penetration was sufficient. This section was replaced by section 63 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The term was not...

sexual offences under the law of Northern Ireland. General interpretation Consent As to the meaning of consent, see article 3 of the Sexual Offences (Northern...

actual bodily harm. A person is guilty of this offence if they commit an offence under section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (see assault...