Crime

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Abettor

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

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Accessory

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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 is committed.

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Assault

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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.

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Attempt to pervert the course of justice

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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.

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Breach of the peace

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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.

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Contempt of court

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An intentional disrespect or an action against the court's authority.

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Culpable and reckless fireraising

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

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Culpable homicide

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Is a crime at common law and it is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person, where death is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less than murder.

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Forgery and uttering

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A crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person.

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Fraud

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 Falsehood

 Fraud

 Wilful Imposition

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Hate crime

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Any crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by malice or ill-will towards a social group.

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Homicide

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When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self-existent, not an unborn child. But if the child has begun to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

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House

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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.

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Lockfast place

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Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash- boxes, show-cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key.

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Malicious mischief

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A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.

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Murder

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A crime at common law and is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences.

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Offensive weapons

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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.

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Perjury

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A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath.

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Principal

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Is the person who actually commits the crime.

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Reset

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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.

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Robbery

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

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Subornation of perjury

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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.

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Theft

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A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority.

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Vandalism (S52 Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995)

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

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Wasting police time

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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.

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Wilful fireraising

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