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NECESSARILY INCLUDED OFFENSE [1 record]

Record 1 2010-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
DEF

A crime that is composed of some, but not all, of the elements of a more serious crime and that is necessarily committed in carrying out the greater crime.

OBS

Battery is a lesser included offense of murder.

OBS

... on a charge that the accused "did commit robbery", common assault is an included offence, since it is a lesser offence in at least one, albeit not all, the descriptions of the offence of robbery ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
OBS

Les voies de fait simples constituent une infraction moindre et incluse à celle de vol qualifié [...]

CONT

L'infraction incluse doit être «moindre» que l'infraction principale. En d'autres mots, une infraction moindre et incluse fait partie de l'infraction reprochée; elle doit nécessairement comprendre certains éléments de l'infraction principale mais sans avoir certains des éléments essentiels requis pour que l'infraction principale soit complète [...]

Spanish

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