Definitions I've Learned (Practice)

Question 1

Evidence

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Hearsay

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Production

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Warrant

Answer 4

A warrant is an authority in writing, which is issued by a Magistrate i.e. a Justice of the Peace or Sheriff, or other competent person, directing officers to take a course of action which might not otherwise be lawful.

Question 5

Abettor

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

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

Culpable and Reckless Fireraising

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Wilful Fireraising

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Principal

Answer 10

The person who actually commits the crime or offence.

Question 11

Vandalism

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Theft

Answer 12

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 13

Robbery

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Perjury

Answer 15

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 16

Subornation of Perjury

Answer 16

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 17

Wasting Police Time

Answer 17

Is 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 unnecessary police investigation.

Question 18

Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice

Answer 18

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 19

Breach of the Peace

Answer 19

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 20

Religion or Belief

Answer 20

Any religion, religious belief or similar philosophical belief.

Question 21

Forgery and Uttering

Answer 21

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 22

Discrimination

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Gender Re-assignment

Answer 23

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

Question 24

House

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Offensive Weapon

Answer 25

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 26

Disability

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Stereotyping

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Reset

Answer 28

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