Definitions Flashcards
Property definition
Property includes real and personal property, and any estate or interest in any real or personal property, money, electricity, and any debt, and any thing in action, and any other right or interest.
Service definition
Service is limited to financial or economic value, and excludes privileges or benefits
Dishonestly Definition
Dishonestly, in relation to an act or omission, means done or omitted without a belief that there was expressed or implied consent to, or authority for, the act or omission from a person entitled to give such consent or authority
Claim of Right defintion
claim of right, in relation to any act, means a 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.
Theft definition
For tangible property, theft is committed by a taking when the offender moves the property or causes it to be moved.
Obtains definition
Obtain, in relation to any person, means obtain or retain for himself or herself or for any other person
Document definition
document means a document, or part of a document, in any form; and includes, without limitation,—
(a) any paper or other material used for writing or printing that is marked with matter capable of being read; or
(b) any photograph, or any photographic negative, plate, slide, film, or microfilm, or any photostatic negative; or
(c) any disc, tape, wire, sound track, card, or other material or device in or on which information, sounds, or other data are recorded, stored (whether temporarily or permanently), or embodied so as to be capable, with or without the aid of some other equipment, of being reproduced; or
(d) any material by means of which information is supplied, whether directly or by means of any equipment, to any device used for recording or storing or processing information; or
(e) any material derived, whether directly or by means of any equipment, from information recorded or stored or processed by any device used for recording or storing or processing information
Attempts Definition
(1) Every one who, having an intent to commit an offence, does or omits an act for the purpose of accomplishing his object, is guilty of an attempt to commit the offence intended, whether in the circumstances it was possible to commit the offence or not.
(2) The question whether an act done or omitted with intent to commit an offence is or is not only preparation for the commission of that offence, and too remote to constitute an attempt to commit it, is a question of law.
(3) An act done or omitted with intent to commit an offence may constitute an attempt if it is immediately or proximately connected with the intended offence, whether or not there was any act unequivocally showing the intent to commit that offence.
Deception definition
240 (2) In this section, deception means-
(a) a false representation, whether oral, documentary, or by conduct, where the person making the representation intends to deceive any other person and -
(i) knows that it is false in a material particular; or
(ii) is reckless as to whether it is false in a material particular; or
(b) an omission to disclose a material particular, with intent to deceive any person, in circumstances where there is a duty to disclose it; or
(c) a fraudulent device, trick, or stratagem used with intent to deceive any person.
Omission definition
An Omission is inaction, i.e. not acting. It can either be a conscious decision not to do something or not giving thought to the matter at all.
Trick definition
An action or scheme undertaken to fool, outwit, or deceive.
Stratagem definition
A cunning plan or scheme especially for deceiving an enemy, or trickery.
Control meaning
To “control” something means to exercise authoritative or dominating influence or command over it.
Debt definition
‘Debt’ means money owing from one person to another.
Induces definition
“To persuade, bring about or give rise to”.
