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Abet
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AbetThe act of encouraging or inciting another to do a certain thing, such as a crime. For example, many countries will equally punish a person who aids or abets another to commit a crime.
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Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Commit
To send a person to prison, asylum, or reformatory by a court order.
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Abbroachment
Obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair.
Abdication
Government. 1) A simple renunciation of an office, generally understood of a supreme office. 2)When inferior magistrates decline or surrender their offices, they are said to make a resignation.
Abduction
Criminal law. The carrying away of any person by force or fraud.
Abearance
Behaviour; as, a recognizance to be of good abearance, signifiesto be of good behaviour.
Aberemurder
Obsolete. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a willful murder, from a chance-medley, or manslaughter.
Abet
Abettor
Criminal law. One who encourages or incites, persuades or sets anotheron to commit a crime.
Abiding by plea
English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit; or who for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, may be compelled by rule in term time, or by a Judge's order in vacation, either to abide by that plea, or by that demurrer, or to plead peremptorily on the morrow; or if near the end of the term, and in order to afford time for notice of trial, the motion may be made in court for rule to abide or plead instanter.
Abigeat
Civil law. A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by driving a living thing away with an intention of feloniously appropriating the same.
Abigei
Civil law. Stealers of cattle, who were punished with more severity than other thieves.
Ablegati
Diplomacy. Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent with a less extensive commission to a court where there are no nuncios.
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Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Commit
To send a person to prison, asylum, or reformatory by a court order.
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Abbroachment
Obsolete. The forestalling of a market or fair.
Abdication
Government. 1) A simple renunciation of an office, generally understood of a supreme office. 2)When inferior magistrates decline or surrender their offices, they are said to make a resignation.
Abduction
Criminal law. The carrying away of any person by force or fraud.
Abearance
Behaviour; as, a recognizance to be of good abearance, signifiesto be of good behaviour.
Aberemurder
Obsolete. An apparent, plain, or downright murder. It was used to distinguish a willful murder, from a chance-medley, or manslaughter.
Abet
Abettor
Criminal law. One who encourages or incites, persuades or sets anotheron to commit a crime.
Abiding by plea
English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit; or who for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, may be compelled by rule in term time, or by a Judge's order in vacation, either to abide by that plea, or by that demurrer, or to plead peremptorily on the morrow; or if near the end of the term, and in order to afford time for notice of trial, the motion may be made in court for rule to abide or plead instanter.
Abigeat
Civil law. A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by driving a living thing away with an intention of feloniously appropriating the same.
Abigei
Civil law. Stealers of cattle, who were punished with more severity than other thieves.
Ablegati
Diplomacy. Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent with a less extensive commission to a court where there are no nuncios.
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