Oral Exam Definitions

Question 1

Abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Accessory

Answer 2

Any person who aids the perpetrator with advice or assisstance before or at the time of the crime, or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime or offence is being committed.

Question 3

Assault

Answer 3

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 4

Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice

Answer 4

A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action, calculated to interfere with the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice.

Question 5

Breach of the Peace

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Culpable and Reckless Fireraising

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Forgery and Uttering

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Fraud

Answer 8

Fraud, Falsehood, Wilful Imposition.

Question 9

House

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Malicious Mischief

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Offensive Weapon

Answer 11

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 themsleves or by some other person.

Question 12

Perjury

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Subornation of Perjury

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Reset

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Driving

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Motor vehicle

Answer 16

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