Definitions Test #1

Question 1

Define: Production

Answer 1

Defined as an article, document, or anything (including animal) which is connected to a crime or offence or other matter under review.

Question 2

Define: Warrant

Answer 2

An authority in writing which is issued by: a Magistrate i.e. Justice of the Peace or a Sheriff; or Other competent person; directing police officers to take a course of action which might not otherwise be lawful.

Question 3

Define: Evidence

Answer 3

Evidence includes all legal means (exclusive of mere argument) which tends to prove or disprove the truth of the subject before the court.

Question 4

Define: Hearsay Evidence

Answer 4

Evidence at second hand given by a person who is merely repeating something said by another person.

Question 5

Define: Abettor

Answer 5

A person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime or offence.

Question 6

Define: Accessory

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Define: Assault

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Define: Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Define: Breach of the Peace

Answer 9

A crime at common law and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotuous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community.

Question 10

Define: Culpable and Reckless Fireraising

Answer 10

Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.

Question 11

Define: Forgery and Uttering

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Define: Fraud

Answer 12

• Falsehood - false representation by word of mouth or writing or false conduct.
• Fraud - intention to deceive and defraud, and
• Wilful imposition - what is required is that there is a practical result i.e. inducing a person to do what they would otherwise not have done.

Question 13

Define: House

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Define: Malicious Mischief

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Define: Offensive Weapon.

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Define: Perjury

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Define: Principal

Answer 17

The person who actually commits the crime or offence.

Question 18

Define: Subornation of Perjury

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Define: Reset

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Define: Robbery

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Define: Theft

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Define: Vandalism

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Define: Wasting Police Time

Answer 23

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 unecessary police investigation.

Question 24

Define: Wilful Fireraising

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Define: Disability

Answer 25

Physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Question 26

Define: Discrimination

Answer 26

Treating someone differently, especially because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc.

Question 27

Define: Gender Re-assignment

Answer 27

Proposing to undergo, undergoing or having undergone any process or part of a process to change physiological or other aspects of sex.

Question 28

Define: Racial Group

Answer 28

A racial group is a group of persons defined by reference to race; and a reference to a person’s racial group is a reference to a racial group into which the person falls. Race includes colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins.

Question 29

Define: Religion or Belief

Answer 29

Any religion, religious belief or similar philisophical belief.

Question 30

Define: Sexual Harassment

Answer 30

Any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity or of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for the person.

Question 31

Define: Stereotyping

Answer 31

A prejudicial mental image held about particular groups of people which is based around false, distorted, simplified or incomplete knowledge about that group.

Question 32

Define: Domestic Abuse

Answer 32

Any form of physical, verbal, sexual, psychological or financial abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a relationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, cohabiting, civil partnership or otherwise) or ex-partners. The abuse can take place in the home or elsewhere including online.

Question 33

Define: Hate Crime

Answer 33

Any crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated (wholly or partly) by malice and ill-will towards a social group.

Question 34

Define: Homicide

Answer 34

Being committed when a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self-existent, not an unborn child. But, if the child has begun to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

Question 35

Define: Missing Person

Answer 35

Anyone whose whereabouts is unknown and;

• where the circumstances are out of character, or
• the context suggests the person may be subject to crime, or;
• the person is at risk of harm to themselves or another.

Question 36

Define: Murder

Answer 36

A common law crime 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 37

Define: Occupancy Rights

Answer 37

• The right, if in occupation, to continue to occupy the matrimonial home.
• If not in occupation, a right to enter into and occupy the matrimonial home.
• And in either case the right to do so together with any child of the family

Question 38

Define: Alcohol

Answer 38

Spirits, wine, beer, cider or any other fermented, distilled or spirituos liqor but does not include alcohol which is of a strength of 0.5% or less, at the time of it’s sale.

Question 39

Define: Ammunition

Answer 39

Any ammunition for any firearm and includes;

• Grenades, bombs and other like missiles;
• Whether capable of use with a firearm or not.

Question 40

Define: Controlled Container

Answer 40

A container of any description which:

• is, or was, capable of holding any liquid; and
• is made from a material which, if the container were to be thrown or propelled by a person, could cause injury to that person.

Question 41

Define: Firearm

Answer 41

A lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or missile can be discharged and includes:

• Any “prohibited weapon”, whether lethal barrelled or not
• Any “component part” of such lethal or prohibited weapong
• Any “accessory” to such weapons which are designed or adapted to diminish the sound or flash caused by firing the weapon.

Question 42

Define: Period of Designated Sporting Event

Answer 42

A period which commences 2 hours before the start, or advertised start and is concluded one hour after the event.

Question 43

Define: Relevant Area (of a sports ground)

Answer 43

Any part of the ground to which spectators are granted access on payment or from which the event can be viewed directly.

Question 44

Define: Driving

Answer 44

A person is held to be “driving” when they have control of the speed and direction of the vehicle.

Question 45

Define: Motor Vehicle

Answer 45

A mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on the roads.

Question 46

Define: Public Road

Answer 46

A road which a roads authority has a duty to maintain.

Question 47

Define: Road

Answer 47

Any way (other than a waterway) over which there is public right of passage (by whatever means) and whether subject to a toll or not and includes, the road’s verges and

• any bridges (whether permanent or temporary) over which,
• or tunnel through which the road passes and;

Any reference to a road includes parts thereof.