Category: Criminal law

  • Street Violence

    Street Based Youth Work Interventions in Street Violence Pete Harris, from the Newman University College, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime Prevention,” under the title “Street Based Youth Work Interventions in […]

  • Street Violence

    Street Based Youth Work Interventions in Street Violence Pete Harris, from the Newman University College, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime Prevention,” under the title “Street Based Youth Work Interventions in […]

  • Assithment

    Concept of Assythment, Assithment Traditional meaning of assythment, assithment [1] in scots law: An action in Scotch law, brought by the relatives or personal representatives of a murdered person against the guilty person before the trial of the latter. Damages were awarded called an […]

  • Assithment

    Concept of Assythment, Assithment Traditional meaning of assythment, assithment [1] in scots law: An action in Scotch law, brought by the relatives or personal representatives of a murdered person against the guilty person before the trial of the latter. Damages were awarded called an […]

  • Foreign Government Policy On Religious Freedom

    Foreign Government Policy on Religious Freedom in United Kingdom U.S. Government Policy on Religious Freedom in United Kingdom in 2016 The Ambassador and other embassy representatives and the U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom discussed religious freedom, intolerance, […]

  • Interlocutor

    Concept of Interlocutor Traditional meaning of interlocutor [1] in scots law: An order or decree of court. [rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “Interlocutor”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United […]

  • Artistic Work

    Concept of Artistic Work in IP Law [rtbs name=”intellectual-property-law”]Lambert defined artistic work as follows: S.4 (1) of the CDPA defines an artistic work as a graphic work, photograph, sculpture or collage, irrespective of artistic quality, a work of architecture being a building or a […]

  • Dittay

    Concept of Dittay Traditional meaning of dittay [1] in scots law: The matter or charge of an indictment or criminal information. [rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “Dittay”, Boston: Little, Brown, and […]

  • Hafne Courts

    Concept of Hafne Courts Traditional meaning of hafne courts [1] in the English common law history: Haven courts; old courts in English seaports. [rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “Hafne Courts”, […]

  • Hafne Courts

    Concept of Hafne Courts Traditional meaning of hafne courts [1] in the English common law history: Haven courts; old courts in English seaports. [rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “Hafne Courts”, […]

  • Wergild Or Weregild

    English Old Law: Wergild or Weregild in the Past The price which in a barbarous age, a person guilty of homicide or other enormous offence was needd to pay, instead of receiving other punishment. 4 Bl. Com. 188. See, for the etymology of this word and a tariff which was paid for the murder of…

  • Declination

    Concept of Declination, Declinature Traditional meaning of declination, declinature [1] in scots law: A Scotch plea to the jurisdiction. Decline: to object to such plea. [rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, […]

  • Lord Denman's Act

    Concept of Lord Denman’s Act Traditional meaning of lord denman’s act [1] in the English common law history: The 6 & 7 Vict. c. 85, removing the disability of witnesses not parties on ground of interest. [rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise […]

  • Fitzherbert

    Concept of Fitzherbert Traditional meaning of fitzherbert [1] in the English common law history: A law writer, tempo Henry VIII.; author of a Grand Abridgment of the year-books and of the new Natura Brevium [F. N. B.], a treatise on the writs then existing; see REGISTRUM BREVIUM; NATURA […]

  • Fleet Books

    Concept of Fleet Books Traditional meaning of fleet books [1] in the English common law history: The records of marriages performed in Fleet Prison, London, between 1686 and 1754. [rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, […]