Categorisation of crimes in the legal systems of Commonwealth countries
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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Culpable homicide is a categorisation of certain offences in various jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Nations which involves the homicide (illegal killing of a person) either with or without an intention to kill depending upon how a particular jurisdiction has defined the offence. Unusually for those legal systems which have originated or been influenced during rule by the United Kingdom, the name of the offence associates with Scots law rather than English law.
Culpablehomicide is a categorisation of certain offences in various jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Nations which involves the homicide (illegal...
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is...
the Penal Code, the Kidnapping Act and Arms Offences Act), such as culpablehomicide not amounting to murder, attempted murder (if hurt was caused), kidnapping...
The concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law is a defense to culpablehomicide (criminal or negligent homicide). Generally, there is a burden to...
marred by controversy and legal troubles. In 2015, he was convicted of culpablehomicide for a negligent driving case in which he ran over five people with...
verdict that Pistorius was not guilty of murder but guilty of the culpablehomicide of Steenkamp and reckless endangerment with a firearm at a restaurant...
not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpablehomicide. He received a five-year prison sentence for culpablehomicide and a concurrent three-year suspended...
head of state or head of government. Capital murder Child murder Culpablehomicide Depraved-heart murder Letting die Mass murder Misdemeanor murder Murder...
defaulted on debt. It was found that Lamba was wanted by police for culpablehomicide in relation to a 2007 traffic accident in Roodepoort that led to two...
an intruder hiding in the bathroom. Pistorius was found guilty of culpablehomicide at a first trial, and was sentenced to five years in prison. On 3...
National Prosecuting Authority declined to prosecute. In July 2018, his culpablehomicide case was reopened after he arrived back in South Africa for a family...
in the other car died at the scene and Komphela was charged with culpablehomicide. He was found guilty on 22 November 2021 and the Brandfort Magistrate's...
In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible...
time of the incident, the murder charge against him was reduced to culpablehomicide not amounting to murder, an offence which was punishable by life imprisonment...
similar conviction. In Indian Law, feticide is considered a form of "culpablehomicide". Section 316 of the Indian Penal Code defines the crime as "an act...
she was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for a reduced charge of culpablehomicide and other hurt-related charges on 22 June 2021. Gayathiri's mother...
Jerome Mathew were arrested. Mathew was eventually found guilty of culpablehomicide not amounting to murder and for destroying evidence. Susairaj was...
charged with offences ranging from causing disappearance of evidence to culpablehomicide not amounting to murder, and sentenced to lengthy jail terms of 12...
198(2) of the CrPC. Section 497 IPC criminalised adultery by imposing culpability on a man who engages in sexual intercourse with another person's wife...
tried before a Judge sitting without a jury. He was found guilty of culpablehomicide on July 28, 2006, but not murder. He was convicted and sentenced to...
defined as follows: Murder.--Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpablehomicide is murder, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the...
verdict should be one of culpablehomicide. Holmes considered section 141 of the Transkeian Code, with its provision that "homicide which would otherwise...
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