Definitions Flashcards
Property
Any real or personal property and 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.
Assault
The act of intentionally applying or attempting to apply force to another person, 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 RGTB that he has thee present ability to effect his purpose
GBH
Harm that is really serious.
Unlawfully
Without lawful justification or excuse
Duress
Has to overpower the will of the person
Intent
An intention to commit the act with an intention to get a specific result. Act or Omission
R v Collister
Reckless
The conscious and deliberate taking of an unjustified risk
Cameron v R
R V Tipple
Knowing
Knowing or correctly believing, the defendant may believe something wrongly but cannot know something that is false
Simester & Brookbanks
Claim of Right
A belief at the time of the act in a proprietary or possessory right to property. It must exist at the time the offence is carried out and must relate to the property that the offence is related to.
It must be genuine and honest but may be based on ignorance or mistake of fact or law.
Person
Someone other than the defendant. Gender Neutral. As proven by JN or CE
Actus Reus
Guilty Act
Mens Rea
Intent
Explosive
Any substance or mixture or combination of substances which in it’s normal state is capable either of decomposition at such rapid rate as to result in an explosion or of producing a pyrotechnic effect includes gunpowder gelignite detonators does not include firearms fireworks
Fire
Fire is the process of combustion the chemical reaction between fuel and oxygen triggered by heat for a fire to all three must be present
Sexual Connection
Connection effected by the introduction into the genitalia or anus other than for medical reasons, a part of the body or object held or manipulated by another person or connection between mouth or tongue of one person and the genitalia or anus of another. All forms of non consensual sexual connection.