• In criminal law, the term offence against the person or crime against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm...
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    The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It consolidated...
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  • Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in...
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    The Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31) (also known as Lord Lansdowne's Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of...
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    The Act 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85, sometimes called the Offences against the Person Act 1837, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great...
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  • Non-fatal offences against the person, under English law, are generally taken to mean offences which take the form of an attack directed at another person, that...
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    The Offences against the Person Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 94) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then...
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  • Grievous bodily harm (category Offences against the person)
    describe the severest forms of battery. It refers to two offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The distinction...
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  • due to a sexual offence. Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland when the relevant sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 were repealed...
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  • section 1(1)(b) of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978: an offence of wilful fireraising an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances...
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  • criminal offences is a partial categorization of English criminal law offences. Offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 Offences under the Computer...
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  • Battery (crime) (category Offences against the person)
    crimes such as ABH and GBH being statutory offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861. As such, even the slightest of touches can amount to an...
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  • Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (category Offences against the person)
    similar offence (see below). The offence is created by section 39 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance. It is triable on indictment and a person guilty...
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    Ireland. The procurement of an abortion remains a criminal offence in Great Britain under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, although the Abortion...
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  • proceedings by summons against the other person would not: ensure the appearance of the person before a court in respect of the offence; prevent a repetition...
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    law concerns offences, their prevention and the consequences, in England and Wales. Criminal conduct is considered to be a wrong against the whole of a...
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    Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 creates the offence of assault, and section 3 of that Act creates the offence of assault...
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    Institute. Retrieved 17 November 2012. "Treason and other Offences against the King's Authority and Person". Government of Canada. Retrieved 27 September 2017...
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    The Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 is an Act of the Oireachtas which virtually codified the criminal law on offences against the person...
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    of the offence in section 33, and is an indictable offence. Section 37 prescribes the penalties. Section 33 reads: It is an offence for a person to keep...
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  • intercourse occurred. Depending on the jurisdiction, rape may be characterized as a sexual offence or an offence against the person. Rape may also be characterized...
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    Buggery Act 1533 (category Violence against LGBT people in the United Kingdom)
    Offences against the Person Act 1828. Buggery remained a capital offence until 1861, though the last executions were in 1835. The Act was piloted through...
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    of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, or "Lord Lansdowne's Act", which retained capital punishment as a possible sentence for the crime. The Victorian...
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    of Ireland: A criminal offence under section 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, up to seven years' imprisonment. The Director of Public Prosecutions...
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  • The Offences Against the State Acts 1939–1998 form a series of laws passed by the Irish Oireachtas. The Act criminalises many actions deemed detrimental...
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    Scottish criminal law includes offences against the person of murder, culpable homicide, rape and assault, offences against property such as theft and malicious...
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  • 34, sometimes referred to as the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 and as the Offences Against the Person Act (Ireland) 1829 John Frederick...
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  • The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the...
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  • Order 2008 Sexual offences against children committed by children or young persons, contrary to article 20 of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland)...
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    actual bodily harm. A person is guilty of this offence if they commit an offence under section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (see assault...
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