Legal Dictionary

Tag: Crimes

  • Mutiny

    An insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their commanders.

  • Penetration

    In criminal law. In rape and some other sexual crimes, actual carnal knowledge is requisite, but the slightest penetration is sufiicient (102 N. Y. 234), it being enough if any part of the virile member be within the labia of the pudendum (1 Car. & K. 393). Rupture of the hymeneal membrane is […]

  • Barrator

    Barratry….

  • Assault

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Assault Meaning of Assault Any unlawful attempt to injure another person with apparent present ability to effectuate the attempt under circumstances creating a fear of imminent peril . Motlev v state , […]

  • Assault

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Assault Meaning of Assault Any unlawful attempt to injure another person with apparent present ability to effectuate the attempt under circumstances creating a fear of imminent peril . Motlev v state , […]

  • Mayhem

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Mayhem Meaning of Mayhem Unlawfully and violently depriving a person of a member such as an arm, leg, finger, eye, etc., so as to render him the less able in fighting, either to defend himself or to annoy […]

  • Token

    Token

    A document or sign of the existence of a fact. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. They are either true or false. When a token is false, and indicates a general intent to defraud, and is used for that purpose, it will render the offender guilty of the crime of cheating […]

  • 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 […]

  • Sedition

    The wilful and knowing utterance, writing , or publication of disloyal, scurrilous , or abusive matter against the United States or a state , or the flag, military forces, or uniform of the nation , which matter is designed and calculated to bring them into contempt , which […]

  • Champerty

    A type of maintenance in which the motive of the maintainor is a share in the subject matter of the suit. A bargain between a plaintiff and a defendant in a suit and a third person to divide between them the land or other matters sued for in the event of the litigant […]

  • Barratry

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Barratry Meaning of Barratry The offense of frequently exciting and stirring up quarrels and suits. An act committed by a master of a vessel for some fraudulent or unlawful purpose contrary to his duty to […]

  • Extortion

    The offense committed by one in authority , by color of his office , by unlawfully taking any money or more than is lawfully due from another.

  • Extortion

    The offense committed by one in authority , by color of his office , by unlawfully taking any money or more than is lawfully due from another.

  • Burglary

    The state of Miss., 344 So.2d 144.