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  2. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm - Wikipedia

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    The common law offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm was abolished, [10] and section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 was repealed, [11] on a date three months after 19 May 1997. [12] The modern offences of assault, assault causing harm, and causing serious harm were created by that Act. [13]

  3. Texas Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.

  4. R v Savage - Wikipedia

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    R v Savage; R v Parmenter [1991] [1] were conjoined final domestic appeals in English criminal law confirming that the mens rea (level and type of guilty intent) of malicious wounding or the heavily twinned statutory offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm will in all but very exceptional cases include that for the lesser offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

  5. R v Brown - Wikipedia

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    In my view the line properly falls to be drawn between assault at common law and the offence of assault occasioning [ABH] created by section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, with the result that consent of the victim is no answer to anyone charged with the latter offence or with a contravention of section 20 unless the ...

  6. What exactly is Prop. 47? And how could California voters ...

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    Proposition 36 on California's November ballot asks voters to change parts of Proposition 47, an initiative passed in 2014 that turned some felonies to misdemeanors. What exactly is Prop. 47?

  7. Bodily harm - Wikipedia

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    The expression is not defined by any statute. It currently appears in a number of offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (ss. 18, 20, 23, 26, 28, 29, 31, 35, and 47) and in the offence of burglary under the Theft Act 1968 (s. 9).

  8. Non-fatal offences against the person in English law - Wikipedia

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    Assault occasioning actual bodily harm carries a maximum sentence of 5 years under section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. [ 27 ] [ 31 ] It is triable either way . [ 8 ] [ 32 ] Both assault (fear of violence) and battery (infliction of violence) are included, [ 33 ] although it is possible to consider section 47 as creating two ...

  9. How Trump’s Agenda 47, plus Project 2025, offer clues into ...

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    Much remains to be seen, but clues aplenty can be found not only in advisor Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promises to help Trump "Make America Healthy Again," but in Trump's own Agenda 47 and in Project ...