12 Definitions Flashcards
Theft
A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it.
Section 9(1)(a) defines burglary as:
A person is guilty of burglary if he enters any building or part of a building as a trespasser and with the intent to:
- Steal anything in the building or part of the building in question;
- Of inflicting on any person therein any previous bodily harm;
- And of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein.
Section 9(1)(b) defines burglary as:
- A person is guilty of burglary if having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein and grevious bodily harm.
Robbery
A person is guilty of robbery if he steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force.
TWOC (Eg Motor vehicle)
A person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it.
Handling stolen goods
A person handles stolen goods if, otherwise than in the course of stealing, knowing or believing them to be stolen goods he dishonestly receives the goods, or dishonestly undertakes or assists in their retention, removal, disposal or for the benefit of another person, or if he arranges to do so.
Common Assault / Battery
- An assault is committed when a person intentionally or recklessly causes another to apprehend the immediate infliction of unlawful force.
- A battery is committed when a person intentionally or recklessly applies unlawful force to another.
Actual Bodily Harm (ABH)
A person intentionally or recklessly assaults another, thereby causing Actual Bodily Harm.
Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH)
Whoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound another person or to inflict grievous Bodily Harm upon another person.
Section 5 POA - Harassment, Alarm and distress/ Disorderly Conduct
A person is guilty of an offence if he:
- (a) uses threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
- (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby.
Section 4 - Fear or provocation of violence
A person is guilty of an offence if he:
- (a) uses towards another person threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or
- (b) distributes or displays to another person and writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person, or to provoke the immediate unlawful violence by that person or another, or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely such violence will be provoked.
Section 3 - Affray
A person is guilty of affray if he uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and his conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.
Section 1 - criminal damage
A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another, intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence.
