Crime 2

Question 0

Lockfast Place

Answer 0

Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash-boxes, show-cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key

Question 1

House

Answer 1

Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished, or any part of the building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons.

Question 2

Malicious Mischief

Answer 2

A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another

Question 3

Murder

Answer 3

A crime at common law and is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences

Question 4

Offensive Weapon

Answer 4

Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or some other person

Question 5

Perjury

Answer 5

A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath

Question 6

Principal

Answer 6

Is the person who actually commits the crime

Question 7

Reset

Answer 7

A crime at common law committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner, to receive and keep property, knowing that it had been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud

Question 8

Robbery

Answer 8

A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence

Question 9

Subornation of Perjury

Answer 9

A crime at common law committed by any person who counsels or induces by any means a person to give false testimony in judicial a proceedings

Question 10

Theft

Answer 10

A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority

Question 11

Vandalism (S52 Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995)

Answer 11

Creates an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse

Question 12

Wasting Police Time

Answer 12

Is a crime at common law committed by any person who maliciously makes a false statement to the police with the intention and effect of causing unnecessary police investigation

Question 13

Wilful Fireraising

Answer 13

Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property