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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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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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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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 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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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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Property crime (redirect from Offence against property)
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Citizen's arrest (redirect from Any person arrest)
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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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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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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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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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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Treason (redirect from Offence against the state)
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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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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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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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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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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Mayhem (crime) (category Offences against the person)
the law relating to offences against the person. The most significant change in common-law mayhem doctrine came in 1697, when the King's Bench decided...
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Peel's Acts (redirect from Offences against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829)
34, sometimes referred to as the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 and as the Offences Against the Person Act (Ireland) 1829 John Frederick...
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Wolfenden report (redirect from Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution)
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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The Offences Against the State Acts 1939–1998 form a series of laws passed by the Irish Oireachtas. The Act criminalises many actions deemed detrimental...
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Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (redirect from Racially aggravated offence)
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...
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Order 2008 Sexual offences against children committed by children or young persons, contrary to article 20 of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland)...
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