Definitions I've Learned (Practice) Flashcards
A deck to only practice the definitions which I have learned
Evidence
Evidence includes all legal means (exclusive of mere argument) which tends to prove or disprove the truth of the subject before the court.
Hearsay
Evidence at second hand, given by a person who is merely repeating something said by another person.
Production
A production is defined as an article, or document, or anything (including animal) which is connected to a crime, or offence, or other matter under review.
Warrant
A warrant is an authority in writing, which is issued by a Magistrate i.e. a Justice of the Peace or Sheriff, or other competent person, directing officers to take a course of action which might not otherwise be lawful.
Abettor
A person who incites, instigates, encourages, or counsels another to commit a crime or offence.
Accessory
Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime or offence is committed.
Assault
A crime at common law, and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another, whether or not actual injury is inflicted.
Culpable and Reckless Fireraising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Wilful Fireraising
Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property.
Principal
The person who actually commits the crime or offence.
Vandalism
An offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse.
Theft
A crime at common law and is the taking or appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority.
Robbery
A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence.
Malicious Mischief
A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.
Perjury
Perjury is a crime at common law, committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath.
Subornation of Perjury
A crime at common law, committed by any person who counsels or induces, by any means, a person to give false testimony in judicial proceedings.
Wasting Police Time
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.
Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice
A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action calculated to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice.
Breach of the Peace
A crime at common law and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community.
Religion or Belief
Any religion, religious belief or similar philosophical belief.
Forgery and Uttering
A crime at common law, and consists in the making and publishing of a writing feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person.
Discrimination
Treating someone differently, especially because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc.
Gender Re-assignment
Proposing to undergo, undergoing, or having undergone any process or part of a process to change physiological or other aspect of gender.
House
Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished, or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons.
Offensive Weapon
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 by some other person.
Disability
Physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a persons ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
Stereotyping
A prejudicial mental image held about particular groups of people which is based around false, distorted, simplified or incomplete knowledge about that group.
Reset
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.
