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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, mens rea (/ˈmɛnzˈreɪə/; Law Latin for "guilty mind"[1]) is the mental state of a defendant who is accused of committing a crime. In common law jurisdictions, most crimes require proof both of mens rea and actus reus ("guilty act") before the defendant can be found guilty.
In criminal law, mensrea (/ˈmɛnz ˈreɪə/; Law Latin for "guilty mind") is the mental state of a defendant who is accused of committing a crime. In common...
prove the simultaneous occurrence of both actus reus ("guilty action") and mensrea ("guilty mind"), to constitute a crime; except in crimes of strict liability...
ditch. Traditional criminal offenses that require no element of intent (mensrea) include statutory rape and felony murder. In tort law, strict liability...
an intent to do some bad thing, the mensrea or guilty mind. As to crimes of which both actus reus and mensrea are requirements, judges have concluded...
Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (No.1120 (N.I.13)). The mensrea (Latin for the "guilty mind") for murder includes an intention to kill...
state of mind (known as the mensrea or "guilty mind") on a standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt". Exceptions to the mensrea requirement exist for strict...
requires mensrea, a mental state of guilt. To constitute a crime, there must be an actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") accompanied by the mensrea (see concurrence)...
justifiable killings; thus the term is used to define the criminal intent or mensrea of a killing. Non-culpable homicide includes those committed in self-defence...
and R v Instan. Actus reus must correspond with mensrea for an offence to be made out. A single mensrea may correspond with a series of separate acts...
prove commission of a crime in common law jurisdictions, the other being mensrea ("guilty mind"). In the United States it is sometimes called the external...
crime in which the standard for proving culpability has been lowered so a mensrea (Law Latin for "guilty mind") element is not required. Such offences are...
Look up Rea or rea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. REA or Rea may refer to: Rea, Lombardy, in Italy Rea, Missouri, United States River Rea, a river...
murder in the Australian constitution, and reformed in order to include a mensrea assessment. Involuntary manslaughter may be distinguished from accidental...
concurrence (or coincidence) of actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") and mensrea (Latin for "guilty mind") in most offences of the criminal law of England...
establishing criminal liability is to prove an actus reus accompanied by a mensrea ("guilty mind") at the relevant time (see concurrence and strict liability...
Australian judgment of the High Court. The matter related to intent and mensrea and the role of strict liability offences. He Kaw Teh, the accused, was...
considered "malicious" where that is set out as the mensrea for a particular offence. The level of mensrea, by statute, specifically needed to accompany "administration"...
rest on the officer's foot. This actus reus was a continuing act and the mensrea was formed during the relevant time (see concurrence). Whether realistically...
Negligent homicide can be distinguished from involuntary manslaughter by its mensrea requirement: negligent homicide requires criminal negligence, while manslaughter...
v. Tutton, discussing the use of an objective standard for determining mensrea in criminal offences. On the afternoon of October 27, 1989, Marc Creighton...
the criminal mind – mensrea; or, an actus reus is transformed into guilt by the supervenience of mensrea. Whether the mensrea is intent or wilfulness...
believe (or possibly suspect) that those others will have the relevant mensrea. In R v Curr, the defendant allegedly incited women to commit offences...
a crime are a guilty act (or actus reus) and a guilty mental state (or mensrea). The traditional view is that moral culpability requires that a defendant...
attraction to children should not affect indecency, it may affect the perceived mensrea of an act. Where the age of the subject of a photograph is uncertain (i...