Common Definitions

Question 1

Define “Property”

Name the section and act?

Answer 1

Includes real or personal property

Any estate or interest in any real or personal property

Money, electricity, and any debt

And anything in action and any other right or interest

Question 2

Define GBH

Answer 2

Grievous bodily harm can simply be defined as “harm that is really serious”

Question 3

Define “Intent”

Answer 3

A person does something “intentionally” if they mean to do it;

They desire a specific result and act with an aim or purpose of achieving it

Question 4

Define “Assault”

Name the section and act?

Answer 4

The act of intentionally applying force or attempting to apply force to a person of another directly or indirectly

Or threatening by any act or gesture to apply such force to the person of another,

If the person making the threat has or causes the other to believe on reasonable grounds

That he has present ability to effect his purpose

And to assault has a corresponding meaning

Has or causes the other to believe on reasonable grounds

Question 5

Define “Wounds”

Answer 5

Breaking of the skin

evidenced by the flow of blood

More often than not external but may by internal

Question 6

Define “Injure”

Name section and act?

Answer 6

Means to cause actual bodily harm

S.2, CA 61

Question 7

Define “Reckless”

Answer 7

Involves consciously and deliberately taking an unjustifiable risk

Question 8

Define “Imprisonable offence”

Answer 8

Any offence punishable by a term of imprisonment

Question 9

Define “Claim of right”

Name the section and act

Answer 9

Means the belief at the time of the act in a proprietary or possessory right in property

In relation to which the offence is alleged to have been committed

Although that belief may be based on ignorance or mistake of fact or of any matter of law other than the enactment against which the offence is alleged to have been committed