offences against the person (an expression which, in particular, includes offences of violence) from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act....
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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 of...
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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...
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sometimes called the Offences against the Person Act 1828, and under the corresponding Irish Act, the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 (10 Geo...
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125 of the Criminal Law (India) Act 1828 (c. 74). It was replaced by section 15 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, and section 63 of the Criminal...
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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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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...
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Wolfenden report (redirect from Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution)
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...
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and 5 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, which had consolidated several provisions from several earlier statutes and had retained the provision...
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Petty treason (category 1828 disestablishments in England)
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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Alan Turing law (redirect from Sexual Offences (Pardons Etc.) Bill 2016-17)
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...
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James Pratt and John Smith (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
the reputation of being independent and acute, but also harsh. Pratt and Smith were convicted under section 15 of the Offences Against the Person Act...
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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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under the Offences against the Person Act 1828, which was in identical terms to this definition, the slightest penetration was sufficient. The book "Archbold"...
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Labouchere Amendment (category 1885 in the United Kingdom)
detestable and abominable vice of buggery". The Offences against the Person Act 1861 specifically lowered the capital punishment for sodomy to life imprisonment...
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The Act was repealed by section 1 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31) and by section 125 of the Criminal Law (India) Act 1828...
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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...
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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)...
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London. In 1981, the usual Pride march and rally was not held in London, decamping to Huddersfield instead as an act of solidarity with the Yorkshire gay...
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The Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown...
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consent. Section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1828 reads as follows: What shall be sufficient Proof of carnal Knowledge in the Four preceding Cases...
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Magna Carta (redirect from The Great Charter of the Liberties)
Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31 s. 1) was the first time a clause of Magna Carta was repealed. Over the next 140 years, nearly the whole of...
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Certificate is the document issued that shows that a person has satisfied the criteria for legal recognition in the acquired gender. The act gives people...
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subjects). The Act was repealed by section 1 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828. Offences against the Person Act 1861 Abortion Act 1967 Human...
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July 1828 by section 1 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828 was consequential on the abolition of petty treason by sections 1 and 2 of that Act. This...
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Laws regarding rape (redirect from Laws against rape)
Act 1956 and the Sexual Offences Act 2003 For example, by the Offences against the Person Act 1828, the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the Visiting...
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Section 28 (redirect from Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986)
those over the age of 21 in the Sexual Offences Act 1967; however, discrimination against gay men, and gay people in general, continued in the following...
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The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced by the Labour government, which grants civil partnerships...
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abolished when the Offences Against the Person Act 1828 was replaced with the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. A total of 8921 men had been prosecuted...
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Peel's Acts (redirect from Offences against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829)
(Ireland) Act 1828 10 Geo. 4. c. 34, sometimes referred to as the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 and as the Offences Against the Person Act (Ireland)...
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