• In criminal law, the term offence against the person or crime against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm...
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    The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It consolidated...
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  • Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in...
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    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 that...
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  • Grievous bodily harm (category Offences against the person)
    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...
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    The Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 34), also known as the Offences Against the Person Act (Ireland) 1829, is an act of the...
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    The Offences Against the Person Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that amended the law to lessen...
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  • Non-fatal offences against the person, under English law, are generally taken to mean offences which take the form of an attack directed at another person, that...
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  • section 1(1)(b) of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978: an offence of wilful fireraising an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances...
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    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...
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  • Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (category Offences against the person)
    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...
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  • due to a sexual offence. Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland when the relevant sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 were repealed...
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  • Battery (crime) (category Offences against the person)
    crimes such as ABH and GBH being statutory offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861. As such, even the slightest of touches can amount to an...
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  • 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...
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  • proceedings by summons against the other person would not: ensure the appearance of the person before a court in respect of the offence; prevent a repetition...
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    Ireland. The procurement of an abortion remains a criminal offence in Great Britain under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, although the Abortion...
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  • criminal offences is a partial categorization of English criminal law offences. Offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 Offences under the Computer...
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    replace, in England and Wales, the offence of child stealing under section 56 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. Section 1(1) provides that...
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    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...
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    Institute. Retrieved 17 November 2012. "Treason and other Offences against the King's Authority and Person". Government of Canada. Retrieved 27 September 2017...
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    Buggery Act 1533 (category Violence against LGBTQ people in the United Kingdom)
    Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31). Buggery remained a capital offence until 1861, though the last executions were in 1835. The Act was piloted...
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    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...
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    Scottish criminal law includes offences against the person of murder, culpable homicide, rape and assault, offences against property such as theft and malicious...
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  • intercourse occurred. Depending on the jurisdiction, rape may be characterized as a sexual offence or an offence against the person. Rape may also be characterized...
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    of the offence in section 33, and is an indictable offence. Section 37 prescribes the penalties. Section 33 reads: It is an offence for a person to keep...
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  • History of English criminal law (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    Abolished by the Offences against the Person Act 1828 Codified by the Criminal Damage Act 1971 Reformed by the Theft Act 1968 Codified by the Theft Act 1968...
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  • Murder in English law (category Common law offences in England and Wales)
    is an offence under the common law legal system of England and Wales. It is considered the most serious form of homicide, in which one person kills another...
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    Crime in Sweden (category Pages using the Graph extension)
    a more reliable indicator on the level of crime in a given country. The level of exposure to offences against the person has decreased somewhat since...
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  • Wales, petty treason ceased to be a distinct offence from murder by virtue of the Offences against the Person Act 1828. It was abolished in Ireland in 1829...
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  • The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the...
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