As a common law offence, the punishment can carry anything up to a life sentence. |
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Keep the defence tight, and when on offence, I want to see quick feet and fast passing. |
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The proposal would also make it an offence to hit a child with an instrument, such as a belt or a cane. |
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If approved it would make begging a recordable offence and convicted beggars would get a criminal record. |
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Police officers will be able to identify repeat offenders and aggressive beggars more easily as begging becomes a recordable offence. |
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The bill also introduces a new power to obtain search warrants when an offence of knowingly possessing objectionable material is suspected. |
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The new bill would make it an offence to serve alcohol to people who are drunk. |
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The rule making it an offence for a reinsman to bet on a horse he was driving was introduced in April last year. |
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From the start strict rules were laid down for its romantic novels, toning down passion to avoid offence. |
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Will the state refuse to relicense a vehicle owned by someone with a prior drunken driving offence? |
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Having witnessed many altercations in dressing rooms I don't think that was a sackable offence. |
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Referee Ted Coutts added to Gala's misery when he yellow-carded Tim Miskelly for an innocuous looking offence at a ruck. |
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The landlord and landlady of The Craven justly feel they are equally the victims concerning an alleged offence they know nothing about. |
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It will also be an offence for landowners to permit their land to be used for hunting. |
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It is not an offence for anyone to hold a view contrary to your own, however politically correct you may consider yourselves to be. |
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Wyatt also wants to introduce a specific offence for launching denial of service attacks, removing a potential grey area in existing laws. |
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The relative lightness of this sentence is explained as the judge observed the motivation for his offence. |
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And it will become an offence to drop litter anywhere, not just on public land as has been the case until now. |
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At the time of his arrest on the drugs offence, he had left home after arguing with his mother, a lone parent. |
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Further, his detention was unlawful, not being founded upon reasonable suspicion of the commission by the Claimant of an arrestable offence. |
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This was a very widely drafted section which in effect made it an offence to disclose any official information without authority. |
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Can disciplinary proceedings be taken for the same offence after an acquittal in the criminal courts? |
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Continuing to put premises to such use without applying for a Fire Certificate is an offence. |
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If that is the case then it is a criminal offence and a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. |
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The provision was only intended to make it an offence to drive motors on footpaths or bridleways, such as ridgeways or ways across common land. |
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Claire had been arrested and bailed earlier on the day of her death for a previous criminal damage offence on a bus stop in Bolton. |
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He pressed for legislation making it an arrestable offence to carry an imitation gun or air weapon in public. |
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Under this Act construction of a dry latrine and its manual cleaning was made an offence. |
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Failure to secure regular school attendance of a registered pupil is already a criminal offence for parents. |
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However, even in the case of a life sentence for murder the circumstances of the offence are taken into account. |
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In this, his sentence differs from a life sentence imposed on a person because of the gravity of the offence. |
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Breaching this injunction is an arrestable offence carrying up to 5 years in prison. |
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At the third offence he shall lose the mace and be permanently removed from office. |
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In England and Wales the same offence is treated as rape where the maximum sentence can be life. |
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A third common law offence which may involve strict liability is that of blasphemous libel. |
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To answer the first question we have to ask ourselves who actually takes offence at receiving Christmas cards? |
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What we got instead was a supporting commentary designed to cause as little offence as possible to antis. |
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What would have happened if the Thai authorities had asserted their jurisdiction over the offence here? |
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A special law was enacted to make such abductions a capital offence, punishable by hanging. |
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Removal of a child from a parent without lawful authority may amount to the criminal offence of child abduction. |
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Under Section 241 of the Criminal Code of Canada, it is an offence to counsel, aide or abet anyone to commit suicide. |
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He had four penalty points on his driving licence imposed in May 2002 for an offence of careless driving. |
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Sentencing, Recorder John Gibson said the offence was serious enough to warrant custody. |
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Your Honour, that is so, with respect, but there is also section 236 of the Customs Act, which is a separate accessorial offence. |
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I'm pretty sure that taking a leak in the street is an arrestable offence if you're not a dog or a toddler. |
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Not to do so would be wasteful, an offence against Scottish thrift and against her tireless spirit. |
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Officers informed the man that he was accused of committing an offence after one of his victims complained of sexual abuse. |
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So, being upstanding citizens they immediately called the rozzers, fearing that a drink-driving offence was about to be committed. |
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The offence went unpunished and possession was lost and in the race to get back Nick Carter made a desperate tackle and was sin-binned. |
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Officers due for suspension have often in practice remained on active duty at the same police station in which the offence was committed. |
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If the offence is serious enough to warrant it, the court may consider imposing a community sentence. |
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The bill proposed making joyriding a criminal offence and provided penalties of up to seven years in prison. |
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That being so, the finding by the trial judge that the accused was guilty of the offence was not supported by admissible evidence. |
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Teenage drug users in Alice Springs take offence to being called addicts, junkies, criminals and so on. |
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Accordingly, there is wide variation in the range of sentences for this offence. |
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On the facts as we understand them, it was an offence adventitiously committed. |
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He was ordered to complete a remaining eight month sentence for that offence before starting the latest jail term. |
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It was an affront to the English language and an offence against all educated people. |
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Some of them have been tortured or given heavy prison sentences for this offence alone. |
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At this point the first woman went beetroot red and began apologizing and stuttering something about not meaning any offence. |
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In these cases parents were advised that their children should be in school and it is an offence to keep them off without good reason. |
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The judge noted he was a risk to the public and said the offence was aggravated by force used and injuries being caused to a vulnerable victim. |
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He pleaded guilty to three robberies, kidnap and one offence of aggravated burglary. |
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Section 61J of the Crimes Act, which is the offence with which they were all charged, has a number of circumstances of aggravation. |
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That being so, it is plain that the offence of which the applicant was convicted was not a matter of aggravation. |
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However what will be decisive will be the substance and reality of the language creating the offence rather than its form. |
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He was given two years for grievous bodily harm and 28 days for the drug offence, the sentences to run concurrently. |
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They are based on the false assumption that the substantive offence requires proof of a fact that life is endangered. |
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It was a very scrappy affair due to both teams being guilty of slowing down the ball at the ruck, an offence that the referee did not penalise often enough. |
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Justice James also said the 34-year-old was not likely to recommit the offence with which he is charged, namely, the making of documents likely to facilitate a terrorist act. |
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She called for racist behaviour to be made a sackable offence and for members of the public to given more opportunities to complain about racist behaviour by officers on duty. |
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Yet, when I confronted Mr Y with my realisations, he for some reason also took offence, abused me verbally, and also tried to do the same physically. |
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But supposing somebody is in a hotel abutting a public place and insults his wife in a hotel room, that would be an offence under this section, would it not? |
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The release of white tailed eagle, Harris hawk and lanner falcon would be an offence under Section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 unless licensed. |
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This may be a very personal question so apologies if I cause offence. |
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Perhaps he would have had to have asked them, ever so politely, of course, if this was their first offence, or if this terrorism lark was becoming a bit of a habit? |
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He had been due to stand trial next week but, at the hearing for plea and directions before the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, he admitted the offence. |
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After 12 minutes Eddie Magee was red-carded for a second bookable offence. |
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The approach that is being taken in the bill is the approach of concealment, which is the proper approach, because if somebody reoffends, then the offence can re-emerge. |
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In a 460-page indictment they were accused of several counts of gross embezzlement, a punishable offence which could attract sentences of up to 10 years prison. |
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If a person fails to comply with such a direction or complies but then re-enters the land within three months, an offence is committed which is punishable by a fine. |
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The seriousness of the offence precipitates a very harsh sanction so that other would-bes could be deterred or discouraged from committing a similar offence. |
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Section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 creates the offence of unlawfully and maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. |
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Not that it will be easy for a player reviled by the fans of almost every other team, even though he has been cleared of the offence more often than he has been found guilty. |
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Other measures put forward for public consultation include making common assault an arrestable offence and breaches of non-molestation orders a criminal offence. |
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A new offence will also be created of using children or innocent parties to hide or carry knives or guns, in an attempt to stem the rising violent crime statistics. |
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The Executive is considering introducing legislation to make it an offence to obstruct or assault any emergency worker carrying out his or her job. |
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However, by corollary, the husband had a reciprocal duty to provide a home for the wife to live in with him, so long as she did not commit a matrimonial offence. |
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But I am totally confused as to what is a yellow-card offence and what is a red-card offence. |
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He feels a displacency at every offence against God, but only tender compassion to the offender. |
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I am inclined to take a forgiving attitude, since this is his first offence. |
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Word reached the ear of the prosecuting attorney of the only testimony that could establish a motive and make the crime a hanging offence. |
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It is estimated that in the UK, there are 3,500 classes of criminal offence. |
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For example, a failure to attend and to receive knighthood at Charles's coronation was a finable offence with the fine paid to the Crown. |
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In other member states, MEPs are immune from detention and from legal proceedings, except when caught in the act of committing an offence. |
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A new criminal offence of failing to comply with statutory requirements was introduced. |
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A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence. |
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He would have known that his offence was against the law and that he would be prosecuted. |
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The enormity of the offence led Anselm to reject personal acts of atonement, even Peter Damian's flagellation, as inadequate and ultimately vain. |
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He calls for legislators to determine whether punishment creates an even more evil offence. |
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Wells which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article. |
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Yet the film was surrounded from its inception by intense anxiety, in some quarters of the Establishment, about the offence it might cause. |
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A foul occurs when a player commits an offence listed in the Laws of the Game while the ball is in play. |
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Rather than stopping play, the referee may allow play to continue if doing so will benefit the team against which an offence has been committed. |
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After questioning a woman who had been offering to lend her pen to voters, the police decided that no offence was being committed. |
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Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 creates a statutory offence of aggravated piracy. |
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It sold well, but caused much offence in influential circles when the authorship was discovered. |
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No person may be punished for an act that was not a criminal offence at the time of its commission. |
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A protection order makes it an offence should anyone kill, injure, capture, maim, or cause harm or distress to the tortoise. |
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Note that an individual serving a prison sentence for an offence other than high treason is not automatically disqualified. |
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Financial transactions need no money laundering design or purpose for UK laws to consider them a money laundering offence. |
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The offence of failing to report a suspicion of money laundering by another person carries a maximum penalty of 5 years' imprisonment. |
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Cathay Pacific received immunity from prosecution for reporting the alleged offence. |
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Crowley took some offence at the treatment of the protagonist, Oliver Haddo. |
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The licence fee is classified as a tax, and its evasion is a criminal offence. |
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Were the offence considered only under this point of view, it would not be easy to assign any good reasons to justify the rigour of the laws. |
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In some nations, movement inside a border zone without a license is an offence and will result in arrest. |
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No probable cause is required as the mere presence inside the zone is an offence, if it is intentional. |
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First, the nature of the offence is an attack on, and infringement of, the personal liberty of an individual. |
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However, they could handle any offence that could competently be dealt with under summary procedure. |
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The punishment for this offence is set out in several Scottish statutes acts. |
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This provision enshrines the concept of autrefois convict, that no one convicted of an offence can be tried or punished a second time. |
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Article 13 of the Constitution of Pakistan protects a person from being punished or prosecuted more than once for the same offence. |
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By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available. |
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Doing an act tending and intending to pervert the course of public justice is an offence under the common law of England and Wales. |
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An attempt to pervert the course of justice is a substantive common law offence and not an inchoate offence. |
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In Scotland and some Commonwealth of Nations jurisdictions the offence of culpable homicide might apply. |
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Following sections of the PPC deal further with the offence in increased detail. |
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It is an offence under common law and is roughly equivalent to the offence of manslaughter in English law. |
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It became an offence to remove stones or items from the site, but the owner of a monument was exempt from any prosecution. |
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Murder was regarded as an offence against the family rather than against society or the state. |
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For one summary offence, they can inflict imprisonment of up to six months. |
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I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offence to their memories. |
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At Trier, Priscillian was tried by a secular court on criminal charges that included sorcery, a capital offence. |
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Until 1998 mutiny and another offence of failing to suppress or report a mutiny were each punishable with death. |
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Such was the impact on crime rates that between February 1922 and February 1923, not a single offence had been brought before the courts. |
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As soon as he is discovered in this offence, he shall be submitted for capital punishment. |
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Calvin, a close friend of Cop, was implicated in the offence, and for the next year he was forced into hiding. |
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The defences which are available to any given offence depend on the wording of the statute and rules of the common law. |
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Insanity, automatism, mistake and self defence operate as defences to any offence. |
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The date which is specified in the indictment is the date on which the deceased died, because the offence is not complete until that date. |
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A count of murder may be joined with a count charging another offence of murder, or a count charging a different offence. |
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In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offence. |
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Saudi Arabia also executes criminals who were minors at the time of the offence. |
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It means not just the criminal act but all the external elements of an offence. |
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Every offence created under the IPC virtually imports the idea of criminal intent or mens rea in some form or other. |
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In R v Creamer, the court said obiter that attempted manslaughter is not an offence known to law. |
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This offence replaces the former offences of larceny, embezzlement and fraudulent conversion. |
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For a basic offence, a person found guilty of this offence is liable for imprisonment of up to 10 years. |
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In Canada, the Criminal Code makes robbery an indictable offence, subject to a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. |
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Theft accompanied by a threat to damage property will not constitute robbery, but it may disclose an offence of blackmail. |
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Dishonestly dealing with property stolen during a robbery will constitute an offence of handling. |
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Generally speaking, the rationale is that the defendant is not guilty of the offence because the force used was not unlawful. |
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Cannibalism itself is not an offence so long as the death occurs naturally. |
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He had simply indicated that he wanted the defendant to repay the debt which would not necessarily involve the commission of an offence. |
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It also adds that if a lighter penalty is provided for after the offence occurs, that lighter penalty shall apply retroactively. |
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The principle prevailed later that an offence already punished by a secular judge was no longer punishable by the ecclesiastical judge. |
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There is a specific criminal offence for disclosing anything that takes place during jury deliberations. |
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Returning from the colonies before the stated period was a capital offence. |
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Under the Transportation Act, returning from transportation was a capital offence. |
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It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to. |
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That was more than 50 years ago, but today, it seems that a complimentary wolf-whistle is a sackable offence. |
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Mr JGS Tompkins, prosecuting, said the offence alleged concerned the sale of 1lb of demerara sugar in which was found the body of a mouse. |
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Having seen it again from my armchair several times in slow motion and from different angles I can see that it was a red-card offence. |
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Failure to comply would incur a large fine and a repeat offence will see the dog removed from them and rehoused. |
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The remorsefulness doesn't really take away from the nature of the offence. |
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Your child commits an offence the moment they step out of your house and on to the street with the air weapon or ball bearing gun. |
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Manning was fined pounds 250 by North Devon magistrates after admitting the offence in Barnstaple. |
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One judge described the offence of loan sharking as 'murder of the soul' which summarises the misery they can cause. |
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Racial abuse to be considered gross misconduct in player and coach contracts and therefore potentially a sackable offence. |
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But they've all said we'll still be calling you a scummer on Saturday, so don't take offence. |
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Mark Bentley was dismissed in the 70th minute for his second bookable offence, before Luke Joyce and Kevin Gall both headed home. |
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Indeed, any discrepancies in regard to money could be a sackable offence. |
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Robert Huth handled a Bentley shot, only for the offence to go unnoticed. |
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Secondly a telly spat is not a sackable offence, even if it is misplaced. |
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The minister took offence with the accusation, saying he'd be judged much more harshly if the tables were reversed and he accused a woman of womansplaining. |
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This means that a tennis player or soccerer has to be punished for a doping offence in exactly the same way as a track and field athlete, a canoeist or a skier. |
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In any other circumstances this would be a slapable offence. |
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Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait or some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offence, and careless of giving it. |
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The archbishop urged that, apart from the principle of clerical privilege, to degrade a man first and to hang him afterwards was to punish him twice for the same offence. |
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The most frequently prosecuted offence under this act is defamation, although in total eighteen offences, including high treason and espionage, are covered. |
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The defendant argued that using cannabis was the only way in which his symptoms could be alleviated and that he could not do so without committing a criminal offence. |
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Precise definitions of the offence may vary between jurisdictions. |
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However, they preferred to import it by using different terms indicating the required evil intent or mens rea as an essence of a particular offence. |
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Mens rea needs to be proved by prosecution from offence to offence. |
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The consent of the 'victim' of what would otherwise be an offence is sometimes an excuse that will exculpate the offender from criminal liability. |
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As the punishment of every conceivable offence was provided, any articles made under the act could be no more than an empty formality having no practical effect. |
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That sacred dread of all offence to him, which is called the Fear of God. |
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Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence. |
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Landowners are prohibited from removing common bluebells on their land for sale and it is a criminal offence to remove the bulbs of wild common bluebells. |
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It is an offence to capture or kill a newt in Ireland without a licence. |
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Jones had taken offence at this and switched back to Treherbert. |
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In English law, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder. |
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Oppressive measures against these illegal field assemblies where attendance was made a capital offence led to an outbreak of armed rebellion in 1666, originating in Galloway. |
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Kidnapping is an offence under the common law of England and Wales. |
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Instead of being charged with an offence he was asked how he pleaded. |
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The photographs caused outrage across the world and Clarence House was forced to issue a statement in response apologising for any offence or embarrassment caused. |
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Although those found guilty of TV licence evasion cannot be sent to prison for that offence, if they default on their fine, they can be imprisoned. |
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A money laundering offence under UK legislation need not even involve money, since the money laundering legislation covers assets of any description. |
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Remedial orders may have retroactive effect, but no one may be guilty of a criminal offence solely as the result of the retroactive effect of a remedial order. |
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Although any such offence required compensation, the law made a distinction between intentional and unintentional harm, and between murder and manslaughter. |
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The construction of the law means that hunt saboteurs' behaviour may result in charges of criminal aggravated trespass, rather than the less severe offence of civil trespass. |
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Even if an offence is not penalised due to advantage being played, the offender may still be sanctioned for misconduct at the next stoppage of play. |
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Horse theft became a capital offence in 1545, punishable by death. |
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It is possible to start a trial for an indictable offence by a voluntary bill of indictment, and go directly to the Crown Court, but that would be unusual. |
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He was extremely ill-mannered and caused offence wherever he went. |
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He was extremely bad-mannered and caused offence wherever he went. |
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And sunbathing on the deck would surely be a keelhauling offence. |
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The second strand states that it is also possible for a player to be sidelined without having received a yellow card, depending on the gravity of the offence. |
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If hypocrisy was a military offence, he would be on permanent jankers. |
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