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Criminal law
Elements
Actus reus
Mens rea
Causation
Concurrence
Scope of criminal liability
Accessory
Accomplice
Complicity
Corporate
Principal
Vicarious
Severity of offense
Felony (or Indictable offense)
Infraction (also called violation)
Misdemeanor (or Summary offense)
Inchoate offenses
Attempt
Conspiracy
Incitement
Solicitation
Offense against the person
Assassination
Assault
Battery
Child abuse
Criminal negligence
Defamation
Domestic violence
False imprisonment
Frameup
Harassment
Home invasion
Homicide
Human trafficking
Intimidation
Kidnapping
Menacing
Manslaughter (corporate)
Mayhem
Murder
felony
Negligent homicide
Robbery
Stalking
Torture
Sexual offenses
Adultery
Bigamy
Child sexual abuse
Cybersex trafficking
Fornication
Homosexuality
Incest
Indecent exposure
Masturbation
Obscenity
Prostitution
Rape
Sex trafficking
Sexual assault
Sexual slavery
Voyeurism
Crimes against property
Arson
Arms trafficking
Blackmail
Bribery
Burglary
Embezzlement
Extortion
False pretenses
Forgery
Fraud
Gambling
Intellectual property violation
Larceny
Looting
Payola
Pickpocketing
Possessing stolen property
Robbery
Smuggling
Tax evasion
Theft
Trespass to land
Vandalism, Mischief
Crimes against justice
Compounding
Malfeasance in office
Miscarriage of justice
Misprision
Obstruction
Perjury
Perverting the course of justice
Crimes against the public
Apostasy
Begging
Censorship violation
Dueling
Genocide
Hostage-taking
Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking)
Miscegenation
Piracy
Regicide
Terrorism
Usurpation
War crimes
Crimes against animals
Cruelty to animals
Poaching
Wildlife smuggling
Bestiality
Crimes against the state
Lèse-majesté
Treason
Espionage
Secession
Sedition
Subversion
Defenses to liability
Actual innocence
Automatism
Consent
Defense of property
Diminished responsibility
Duress
Entrapment
Ignorantia juris non excusat
Infancy
Insanity
Justification
Mistake (of law)
Necessity
Provocation
Self-defense
Other common-law areas
Contracts
Defenses
Evidence
Property
Torts
Wills, trusts and estates
Portals
Law
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In criminal law, actus reus (/ˈæktəsˈreɪəs/; pl.: actus rei), Latin for "guilty act", is one of the elements normally required to prove commission of a crime in common law jurisdictions, the other being mens rea ("guilty mind"). In the United States it is sometimes called the external element or the objective element of a crime.
In criminal law, actusreus (/ˈæktəs ˈreɪəs/; pl.: actus rei), Latin for "guilty act", is one of the elements normally required to prove commission of...
Look up actus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Actus may refer to: In Ancient Rome: Actus (unit of length), unit of length Actus, path which could...
requires proof of some act. Scholars label this the requirement of an actusreus or guilty act. Some crimes – particularly modern regulatory offenses –...
actusreus ("guilty action") and mens rea ("guilty mind"), to constitute a crime; except in crimes of strict liability. In theory, if the actusreus does...
common law jurisdictions, most crimes require proof both of mens rea and actusreus ("guilty act") before the defendant can be found guilty. The standard...
(mens rea) to commit the act and to have actually committed the act (actusreus). Further, statements that are facts cannot be considered perjury, even...
Ireland, and the Australian states of South Australia and Victoria. The actusreus of theft is usually defined as an unauthorised taking, keeping, or using...
Manslaughter. In New South Wales, in cases of voluntary manslaughter, both the actusreus (literally guilty act) and mens rea (literally guilty mind) for murder...
immediate unlawful violence. Both in the common law and under statute, the actusreus of a common assault is committed when one person causes another to apprehend...
attempt in legal terms is that the defendant has failed to commit the actusreus (the Latin term for the "guilty act") of the full offense, but has the...
Offences Act 2003. A range of acts toward the more severe among those in its actusreus augmented other offences, including rape (section 1). Prosecutions can...
crime are fairly consistent regardless. A crime has three parts: the act (actusreus), the intent, and the concurrence of the two. Generally crimes can be...
" Establishing actusreus in Singaporean criminal jurisprudence follows English precedent such as R v Miller and R v Instan. Actusreus must correspond...
considered criminal. The fundamentals of a crime are a guilty act (or actusreus) and a guilty mental state (or mens rea). The traditional view is that...
6; [1983] 2 AC 161) is an English criminal law case demonstrating how actusreus can be interpreted to be not only an act, but a failure to act. James...
communication so that the other person has the opportunity to agree, but the actusreus is complete whether or not the incitement actually persuades another to...
King or Queen's peace with malice aforethought express or implied. The actusreus (Latin for "guilty act") of murder was defined in common law by Coke:...
proximity to the full offense). For the purposes of concurrence, the actusreus is a continuing one and parties may join the plot later and incur joint...
in all inchoate offences, the defendant "has not himself performed the actusreus but is sufficiently close to doing so, or persuading others to do so,...
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