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  • Discrimination

    Discrimination

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Discrimination Meaning of Discrimination A failure to treat all persons equally, generally arising out of a prejudice against a class of persons, race, color, sex. religion , etc. A general failure to […]

  • Blackmail

    Synonymous with extortion. The extortion of money from a person by threats of accusation or exposure or opposition in the public prints; hush money; bribe to keep silence; obtaining value from a person as a condition of refraining from making an accusation against him, or disclosing some […]

  • Blackmail

    Synonymous with extortion. The extortion of money from a person by threats of accusation or exposure or opposition in the public prints; hush money; bribe to keep silence; obtaining value from a person as a condition of refraining from making an accusation against him, or disclosing some […]

  • Genocide

    Genocide

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Genocide Meaning of Genocide Killing members of an identifiable group of people or Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction. <div […]

  • Lynch

    Grammar This term is a verb. Etimology of Lynch (You may find lynch at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). 1835, “inflict severe (but not deliberately fatal) bodily punishment (on someone) without legal sanction,” from earlier Lynch law (1811), in […]

  • Common

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Common Meaning of Common Belonging to the community at large ; of frequent or ordinary occurrence or appearance ; characteristic of the lower classes; public , general , familiar, usual and ordinary. […]

  • Search

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Search Meaning of Search In criminal law, means an examination of a person ‘s house or other buildings or premises or of his person with a view to the discovery of contraband or illicit or stolen […]

  • Custody

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Custody Meaning of Custody The care and keeping of anything; safekeeping, protection, charge , care, guardianship. imprisonment , as in the words to be in custody. A restraint on one’s liberty . […]

  • Infamous

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Infamous Meaning of Infamous Shameful or disgraceful. At common law , treason , felony and forgery were infamous crimes with the consequence that a person convicted of such a crime was excluded from being a […]

  • Offense

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Offense Meaning of Offense A crime or violation of a statute , generally entailing punitive consequences. The word is defined in 18 U.S.C. §3152(2) as follows: The term offense means any criminal […]

  • Capitula Itineris

    Schedules of inquiry delivered to the justices in eyre before setting out on their circuits, and which were intended to embrace all possible crimes. …

  • Boteless

    In old English law. Without amends; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment; without relief or remedy. Cowell; Blount. The word (written bootless) is still retained in the sense of vain or useless. Cowell. …

  • Benefit Of Clergy

    Originally, the exemption from the abolition in 1827.

  • Notoriety

    The state or character of being well- known, usually, and always when applied to crime, in an unfavorable sense. People v Salmon, 148 Cat. 303.

  • Notoriety

    The state or character of being well- known, usually, and always when applied to crime, in an unfavorable sense. People v Salmon, 148 Cat. 303.