• In criminal law, the term offence against the person or crime against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm...
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    The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It consolidated...
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  • Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in...
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    The Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 is an Act of the Oireachtas which virtually codified the criminal law on offences against the person...
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    The Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31) (also known as Lord Lansdowne's Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of...
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    The Act 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85, sometimes called the Offences against the Person Act 1837, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great...
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  • Non-fatal offences against the person, under English law, are generally taken to mean offences which take the form of an attack directed at another person, that...
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  • Grievous bodily harm (category Offences against the person)
    describe the severest forms of battery. It refers to two offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The distinction...
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  • section 1(1)(b) of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978: an offence of wilful fireraising an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances...
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  • due to a sexual offence. Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland when the relevant sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 were repealed...
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