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INCLUDED OFFENCE [7 records]

Record 1 2015-02-04

English

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

A lesser offence which is part of another greater or more serious offence and is established by proof of the same or fewer facts, or a less culpable mental state, or both, than that which is required to establish the offence charged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
DEF

Infraction moindre qui s'inscrit dans une autre infraction plus complexe ou plus grave, et dont la preuve réside dans les mêmes faits ou une partie des mêmes faits, ou encore un élément moral moindre que l'autre infraction.

Spanish

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Record 2 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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Record 3 2007-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
  • Offences and crimes
  • Penal Administration
DEF

... an offence committed, or alleged to have been committed, by a young person who has attained the age of fourteen years, or, in a province where the lieutenant governor in council has fixed an age greater than fourteen years under section 61, the age so fixed, under one of the following provisions of the Criminal Code...

CONT

If a young person who is charged with an offence set out in paragraph(a) of the definition "presumptive offence" in subsection 2(1) is found guilty of committing an included offence for which an adult is liable to imprisonment for a term of more than two years, other than another presumptive offence set out in that paragraph...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Administration pénitentiaire
DEF

[...] Toute infraction visée à l'une des dispositions du Code criminel énumérées ci-après et commise ou alléguée avoir été commise par un adolescent après qu'il a atteint l'âge de quatorze ans ou, dans le cas où le lieutenant-gouverneur en conseil de la province a fixé un âge de plus de quatorze ans en vertu de l'article 61 [...]

CONT

Dans le cas où un adolescent accusé d'une infraction désignée visée à l'alinéa a) de la définition de ce terme au paragraphe 2(1) est déclaré coupable d'une infraction incluse pour laquelle un adulte serait passible d'une peine d'emprisonnement de plus de deux ans, à l'exception d'une autre infraction désignée visée à cet alinéa [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
CONT

The appellant was charged with second-degree murder for having caused the death of her husband on August 10, 1999. She was acquitted by a jury of that charge(and of the included offence of manslaughter).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
CONT

L'appelante a été accusée de meurtre au second degré pour avoir causé la mort de son mari le 10 août 1999. Un jury l'a acquittée de cette accusation (ainsi que relativement à l'infraction incluse d'homicide involontaire coupable).

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

A plea to the included offence of simple possession on an information charging the offence under this subsection is a plea to the indictable offence of possession and the Crown is not called upon to elect whether to proceed summarily or by indictment : R. v. Wardley(1978), 43 C. C. C.(2d) 345, 11 C. R.(3d) 282(Ont. C. A.) ;R. v. Fudge(1979), 49 C. C. C.(2d) 63, 26 Nfld. & P. E. I. R. 76(Nfld. C. A.).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 7 1989-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
DEF

The criminal law department of our jurisprudence; so called because the sovereign, in whom centres the majesty of the whole community, is supposed by the law to be the person injured by every wrong done to the community, and is, therefore, in all cases, the proper prosecutor for every such offence. Originally pleas of the Crown meant offences which were triable only in the king's courts.... After justices of the peace had been established all offences were included in the expression pleas of the Crown....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
OBS

En common law, un crime est une atteinte à la paix et à la dignité du souverain. C'est donc en son nom que la Couronne porte plainte, et poursuit l'accusé au pénal.

Spanish

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