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Elements of a crime
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Elements of a crimeSpecific factors that define a crime which the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction: (1) that a crime has actually occurred, (2) that the accused intended the crime to happen, and (3) a timely relationship between the first two factors.
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Define
To set bounds to, mark the limits of.
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.
Prosecution
Criminal law. The means adopted to bring a supposed offender to justice and punishment by due course of law.
Reasonable
Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Conviction
The formal decision of a criminal trial which finds the accused guilty. It is the finding of a judge or jury, on behalf of the state, that a person has, beyond reasonable doubt, committed the crime for which he, or she, has been accused. It is the ultimate goal of the prosecution and the result resisted by the defense. Once convicted, an accused may then be sentenced.
Accused
One who is charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
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Eldest
He or she who has the greatest age.
Elector
Government. One who has the right to make choice of public officers one, who has a right to vote.
Electronic surveillance
Listening and/or recording activities using electronic means (audio and video) without being detected. In some jurisdictions, electronic surveillance is unlawful without permission from all parties.
Eleemosynary
Charitable alms-giving.
Elegit
English practice, remedies. A writ of execution directed to the sheriff, commanding him to make delivery of a moiety of the party's land, and all his goods, beasts of the plough only excepted.
Elements of a crime
Elisors
Practice. Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been challenged as incompetent.
Ell
A measure of length
Eloign
French eloigner, to remove to a distance: L. Latin e-longe, far off. When the sheriff seeks to replevy goods distrained, and finds them carried out of the county, or concealed, he may return that they are eloigned, elongata, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown.
Eloigne
Practice. This word signifies, literally, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.
Elongata
Practice. There turn made by the sheriff to a writ of replevin, when the goods have been removed to places unknown to him.
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Define
To set bounds to, mark the limits of.
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.
Prosecution
Criminal law. The means adopted to bring a supposed offender to justice and punishment by due course of law.
Reasonable
Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Conviction
The formal decision of a criminal trial which finds the accused guilty. It is the finding of a judge or jury, on behalf of the state, that a person has, beyond reasonable doubt, committed the crime for which he, or she, has been accused. It is the ultimate goal of the prosecution and the result resisted by the defense. Once convicted, an accused may then be sentenced.
Accused
One who is charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
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PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Eldest
He or she who has the greatest age.
Elector
Government. One who has the right to make choice of public officers one, who has a right to vote.
Electronic surveillance
Listening and/or recording activities using electronic means (audio and video) without being detected. In some jurisdictions, electronic surveillance is unlawful without permission from all parties.
Eleemosynary
Charitable alms-giving.
Elegit
English practice, remedies. A writ of execution directed to the sheriff, commanding him to make delivery of a moiety of the party's land, and all his goods, beasts of the plough only excepted.
Elements of a crime
Elisors
Practice. Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been challenged as incompetent.
Ell
A measure of length
Eloign
French eloigner, to remove to a distance: L. Latin e-longe, far off. When the sheriff seeks to replevy goods distrained, and finds them carried out of the county, or concealed, he may return that they are eloigned, elongata, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown.
Eloigne
Practice. This word signifies, literally, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.
Elongata
Practice. There turn made by the sheriff to a writ of replevin, when the goods have been removed to places unknown to him.
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