In criminal law, mens rea (/ˈmɛnz ˈreɪə/; Law Latin for "guilty mind") is the mental state of a defendant who is accused of committing a crime. In common...

serious bodily harm. Mens rea is almost always a necessary component in order to prove that a criminal act has been committed. Mens rea varies depending on...

prove the simultaneous occurrence of both actus reus ("guilty action") and mens rea ("guilty mind"), to constitute a crime; except in crimes of strict liability...

In criminal law, strict liability is liability for which mens rea (Law Latin for "guilty mind") does not have to be proven in relation to one or more elements...

requires mens rea, a mental state of guilt. To constitute a crime, there must be an actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") accompanied by the mens rea (see concurrence)...

an intent to do some bad thing, the mens rea or guilty mind. As to crimes of which both actus reus and mens rea are requirements, judges have concluded...

English criminal law case concerning the reaffirming of presumption of mens rea in criminal law. The case defendant landlady of a farmhouse (which was...

murder in the Australian constitution, and reformed in order to include a mens rea assessment. Involuntary manslaughter may be distinguished from accidental...

In criminal law, intent is a subjective state of mind (mens rea) that must accompany the acts of certain crimes to constitute a violation. A more formal...

commission of a crime in common law jurisdictions, the other being Latin: mens rea ("guilty mind"). In the United States, it is sometimes called the external...

considered "malicious" where that is set out as the mens rea for a particular offence. The level of mens rea, by statute, specifically needed to accompany "administration"...

(Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (No.1120 (N.I.13)).[citation needed] The mens rea (Latin for the "guilty mind") for murder is an intention to kill or cause...

required for criminal liability. When no mens rea is specified, under the Model Penal Code (MPC), the default mens rea requirement is recklessness, which the...

attraction to children should not affect indecency, it may affect the perceived mens rea of an act. Where the age of the subject of a photograph is uncertain (i...

concurrence (or coincidence) of actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") and mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") in most offences of the criminal law of England...

justifiable killings; thus the term is used to define the criminal intent or mens rea of a killing. Non-culpable homicide includes those committed in self-defence...

and R v Instan. Actus reus must correspond with mens rea for an offence to be made out. A single mens rea may correspond with a series of separate acts...

where there was a killing without provocation. Malice aforethought was the mens rea element of murder in 19th-century America, and remains as a relic in those...

v. Tutton, discussing the use of an objective standard for determining mens rea in criminal offences. On the afternoon of October 27, 1989, Marc Creighton...

however, the mens rea is implied. Criminal law recognizes recklessness as one of four main classes of mental state constituting mens rea elements to establish...

in criminal law. The court held that duress is capable of negating the mens rea for some offences, but not for aiding the commission of an offence under...

a crime are a guilty act (or actus reus) and a guilty mental state (or mens rea). The traditional view is that moral culpability requires that a defendant...

state of mind (known as the mens rea or "guilty mind") on a standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt". Exceptions to the mens rea requirement exist for strict...

crime in which the standard for proving culpability has been lowered so a mens rea (Law Latin for "guilty mind") element is not required. Such offences are...

reduced to actus reus elements and mens rea elements. Actus reus elements are elements that describe conduct. Mens rea elements are elements that identify...

Look up Rea or rea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. REA or Rea may refer to: Rea, Lombardy, in Italy Rea, Missouri, United States Rea River, in Fiordland...

Negligent homicide can be distinguished from involuntary manslaughter by its mens rea requirement: negligent homicide requires criminal negligence, while manslaughter...

establishing criminal liability is to prove an actus reus accompanied by a mens rea ("guilty mind") at the relevant time (see concurrence and strict liability...

believe (or possibly suspect) that those others will have the relevant mens rea. In R v Curr, the defendant allegedly incited women to commit offences...

rest on the officer's foot. This actus reus was a continuing act and the mens rea was formed during the relevant time (see concurrence). Whether realistically...