Author: International
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Entrapment
Definition of Entrapment In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Entrapment : Deliberately trapping a person into committing a crime in order to secure his conviction, as by offering to buy drugs. English courts do not recognize a defence of entrapment as […]
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Legal Terms
Legal Terms in Scotland: Action Acts of Adjournal Acts of Sederunt Adjudication Admonition Aliment Allenarly Allodial Art and Part Assoilzie Avizandum Books of Council and Sessions Candlemas Caution Confirmation Curator Dead´s Part Debate Decree Defender Delict Diligence […]
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Scot Legal System
The sources of Scots Laws are Legislation (including European legislation), Precedent, Institutional text (from writers like Mackenzie, Stair, Craig, Bell, Hume and Alison), Custom and Equity. Criminal Procedure in Scotland In Scotland hardly any crimes are constituted by statute law, […]
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Income Tax
Introduction to Income Tax Great Britain was the first country -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about the entry income tax- to introduce income tax. In 1799 William Pitt, needing funds for the war against France, levied 10% per annum on incomes over £200, with a […]
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the Law is a Ass
According to Encyclopedia of Britain, the law is a ass is an observation by Mr Bumble, the beadle in *Oliver Twist, on hearing that he is even more guilty than Mrs Bumble in the matter of Oliver’s mother’s missing locket and gold ring because ‘the law supposes that your wife acts under your […]
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Taxi
Taxi licensing law Legislation and Case Law The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 The Road Safety Act 2006 The DFT’s Good Practice Guide Brentwood Borough Council v Gladen 2004 Admin Crt R (on the application of Johnson) v Reading Borough Council 2004 Admin Crt Sardar v […]
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Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings
Sir Brian Leveson’s Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings The recommendations from the Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings carried out by Sir Brian Leveson, published in January 2015, are wide-ranging – and challenge the criminal justice system to be more radical in the use […]
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Public Corporations
List of Public Corporations Architects Registration Boards BBC BBC World Service Channel 4 Civil Aviation Authority Historic Royal Palaces London and Continental Railways Ltd Office for Nuclear Regulation The Oil and Pipelines Agency Pension Protection Fund […]
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Offences
Fraud Offences: Criminal Law and Procedure Dishonesty and Related Mens Rea Concepts There is more information about this section in the entry about Dishonesty and Related Mens Rea Concepts in this legal Encyclopedia. Fraud Act 2005 There is more information about this section in the entry […]
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William Lenthall
William Lenthall (1591-1662), English parliamentarian, speaker of the House of Commons, second son of William Lenthall, of Lachford, Oxfordshire, a descendent of an old Herefordshire family, was born at Henley-on-Thames in June 1591. He left Oxford without taking a degree in 1609, and was […]
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Channel Islands
Group of islands off the northwest coast of France, which became attached -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about the entry Channel Islands- to the British crown at the time of the Conquest as part of the dukedom of Normandy. They have remained linked with Britain […]
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Private Bank
(In) the early history of banking—thus, as no bank Private banks could be formed with more than six partners during the whole of the period from 1694 to 1826 and 1833, the majority of the banks formed throughout England and Wales for more than a century were necessarily small and usually […]
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Answer
Why provide answers? Definition of Answer In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Answer : 1. A reply to a request for further information (See interrogatory). 2. A statement of case served by the respondent to a petition, e.g. an answer to a divorce petitio […]
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Catholics
Roman Catholics History Roman Catholicism in England has shown a tendency to advance, especially among the upper and upper-middle classes. The published lists of “converts” are, however, no safe index to actual progress; for no equivalent statistics are available for “leakage” in the opposite […]
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Short Title
Short Title Statute Names According to Renata E.B. Strause, Allyson R. Bennett, Caitlin B. Tully, M. Douglass Bellis, and Eugene R. Fidell, in How Federal Statutes Are Named (Law Library Journal Vol. 105:1 [2013-1], in 1847, long before any (United States) federal law had one, a drafter of […]