Criminal Law Part 1

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  1. supremacy
    power to dominate or defeat
  2. unambiguous
    having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning
  3. jurisprudence
    the branch of philosophy concerned with the law
  4. substantive
    having a firm basis in reality and therefore important
  5. appellate
    relating to challenges to a legal decision
  6. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
  7. infraction
    a violation of a law or rule
  8. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  9. vagrancy
    the state of wandering from place to place
  10. concurrence
    the property of two things happening at the same time
  11. causation
    the act of making something happen
  12. actus reus
    activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  13. ex post facto
    affecting things past
  14. corpus delicti
    the body of evidence that constitute the offence
  15. malice
    the desire to see others suffer
  16. provocation
    a means of arousing or stirring to action
  17. penal
    of or relating to punishment
  18. aforethought
    planned in advance
Created on Tue Jul 06 20:31:10 EDT 2010 (updated Tue Jul 06 20:32:05 EDT 2010)

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