offense of omission

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• offense — 1 offensive, aggression, *attack Analogous words: assault, *attack, onslaught, onset 2 Offense, resentment, umbrage, pique, dudgeon, huff are comparable when they mean a person s emotional reaction to what he regards as a slight, an affront, an… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• omission — omis·sion /ō mi shən/ n 1: something neglected, left out, or left undone 2: the act, fact, or state of leaving something out or failing to do something esp. that is required by duty, procedure, or law liable for a criminal act or omission Merriam …   Law dictionary

• offense — of·fense or of·fence /ə fens/ n 1: a violation of the law; esp: a criminal act nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy U.S. Constitution amend. V see also lesser included offense 2 …   Law dictionary

• Omission (criminal) — In the criminal law, an omission, or failure to act, will constitute an actus reus (Latin for guilty act ) and give rise to liability only when the law imposes a duty to act and the defendant is in breach of that duty.DiscussionIn the criminal… …   Wikipedia

• offense — Synonyms and related words: affront, aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, angry look, armed assault, aspersion, assailing, assailment, assault, atrocity, attack, bad faith, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, breach, breach of… …   Moby Thesaurus

• omission — Synonyms and related words: Sisyphean labor, abbreviation, abridgment, absence, arrearage, atrocity, bad policy, balk, ban, bar, barring, beggary, bevue, blank, blockade, blue penciling, bowdlerization, boycott, breach, break, cancellation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• same offense — As used in Constitution, providing that no person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense, does not signify the same offense eo nomine, but the same criminal act, transaction, or omission. Term same offense as used in statute relating …   Black's law dictionary

• public offense — An act or omission forbidden by law, and punishable as by law provided. Term used to describe a crime as distinguished from an infringement of private rights. A public offense, the commission of which authorizes private person to arrest another,… …   Black's law dictionary

• crime of omission — An offense in the form of failor to perform a required act, rather than the doing of a prohibited act. 21 Am J2d Crim 1, § 6 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• crime — / krīm/ n [Middle French, from Latin crimen fault, accusation, crime] 1: conduct that is prohibited and has a specific punishment (as incarceration or fine) prescribed by public law compare delict, tort 2: an offense against public law …   Law dictionary

• PÉCHÉ — Les expériences et les notions ayant trait à l’ordre du mal sont très diverses: depuis les sentiments plus ou moins conscients de honte, d’impureté ou de culpabilité, jusqu’au jugement moral le plus élaboré de la conscience, en passant par la… …   Encyclopédie Universelle