dog-draw. Hist. The apprehension of someone chasing a deer in a forest with a dog. “Dog-draw is an apparent deprehension of an offender against venison in the forest. There are four kinds of them observed by Manwood, part. 2, cap. 18, num. 9, of his Forest Laws, that is, dog-draw, stable-stand, back-bear, and bloody-hand. Dog-draw […]
anticipation of injury 可以预见的伤害(→anticipation; apprehension of injury)
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blood money. 1. Hist. A payment given by a murderer’s family to the next of kin of the murder victim. — Also termed wer. 2. A reward given for the apprehension of a person charged with a crime, esp. capital murder.
suspicion. The apprehension or imagination of the existence of something wrong based only on inconclusive or slight evidence, or possibly even no evidence. reasonable suspicion. A particularized and objective basis, supported by specific and articulable facts, for suspecting a person of criminal activity. • A police officer must have a reasonable suspicion to stop a
waif, n. 1. An abandoned article whose owner is unknown, esp. something stolen and thrown away by the thief in flight, usu. through fear of apprehension. • At common law, if a waif, whether stolen or merely abandoned, was seized before the owner reclaimed it, the title vested in the Crown. The owner was thus
dangerous-proximity test. Criminal law. A common-law test for the crime of attempt, focusing on whether the defendant is dangerously close to completing the offense. • Factors include the gravity of the potential crime, the apprehension of the victim, and the uncertainty of the crime’s occurrence. See ATTEMPT(2). [Cases: Criminal Law 44. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§
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appreciation of risk 风险之虑(→apprehension of injury)
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periculo petentis (p[schwa]-rik-y[schwa]-loh p[schwa]-ten-tis). [Latin] Hist. At the risk of the person seeking. • A private person was liable in damages for a judicial warrant wrongfully issued at that person’s insistence. “[A] creditor seeking a warrant for the apprehension of his debtor as in meditatione fugae, obtains it periculo petentis, and he, not the judge,
prisoner. 1. A person who is serving time in prison. 2. A person who has been apprehended by a law-enforcement officer and is in custody, regardless of whether the person has yet been put in prison. Cf. CAPTIVE(1). “While breach of prison, or prison breach, means breaking out of or away from prison, it is