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Common law offences in England and Wales

  • KidnappingThe abduction of Dinah, painted by James Tissot in the 19th century, captures a moment of unlawful removal that has defined legal debates for over a hundred…
  • Battery (crime)The legal definition of battery centers on a single, concrete action: unlawful intentional infliction of harmful or offensive physical contact with another…
  • PraemunireThe word praemunire appears in the 14th-century writ of summons that commanded a sheriff to warn a person to appear before the Court.