crimes against property. A category of criminal offenses in which the perpetrator seeks to derive an unlawful benefit from — or do damage to — another’s property without the use or threat of force. • Examples include burglary, theft, and arson (even though arson may result in injury or death). — Also termed property crimes. […]
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inhibition (in-hi-bish-[schwa]n), n. 1. Eccles. law. A writ issued by a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding a judge from proceeding in a pending case. 2. Eccles. law. An order issuing from an ecclesiastical court, prohibiting a member of the clergy from taking office or performing an unlawful action. 3. Hist. A writ of prohibition. See PROHIBITION(2).
Criminal law. A person whose action on behalf of a principal is unlawful but does not merit prosecution because the agent had no knowledge of the principal’s illegal purpose; a person who lacks the mens rea for an offense but who is tricked or coerced by the principal into committing a crime. • Although the
A prospectus for a stock issue that has been filed but not yet approved by the SEC. • The SEC requires such a prospectus to contain a notice — printed in distinctive red lettering — that the document is not complete or final. That notice, which is usu. stamped or printed in red ink, typically
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carjacking. The forcible theft of a vehicle from a motorist; the unlawful commandeering of an automobile. 18 USCA § 2119. [Cases: Robbery 1. C.J.S. Robbery §§ 2, 4, 12, 90–91.] — carjack, vb.
non cepit (non see-pit). [Latin “he did not take”] Hist. A general denial in a replevin action that puts at issue both the taking and the place of taking. — Also termed non cepit modo et forma. See REPLEVIN. [Cases: Replevin 63, 69.] “ ‘Non cepit’ is the general issue in replevin, and is a
criminal instrument. 1. Something made or adapted for criminal use. Model Penal Code § 5.06(1)(a). 2. Some-thing commonly used for criminal purposes and possessed under circumstances showing an unlawful purpose. Model Penal Code § 5.06(1)(b). — Also termed instrument of crime.
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Entrapment of a defendant who is predisposed to commit a lesser offense but who is unlawfully induced to commit a more serious offense that carries a more severe sentence. — Also termed sentence-factor manipulation.
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Dyer Act. A federal law, originally enacted in 1919, making it unlawful either (1) to transport a stolen motor vehicle across state lines, knowing it to be stolen, or (2) to receive, conceal, or sell such a vehicle, knowing it to be stolen. 18 USCA §§ 2311–2313. — Also termed National Motor Vehicle Theft Act.
detection. The act of discovering or revealing something that was hidden, esp. to solve a crime. “There is a clear distinction between inducing a person to do an unlawful act and setting a trap to catch him in the execution of a criminal plan of his own conception. There is also a distinction between the