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Art and part is a term used in Scots law to denote the aiding or abetting in the perpetration of a crime, or being an accessory before or at the perpetration of the crime. It results in each person involved in the crime being equally liable for the full offence, regardless of their individual contribution to it.
Aiding and abetting is a legal doctrine related to the guilt of someone who aids or abets (encourages, incites) another person in the commission of a crime (or in another's suicide). It exists in a number of different countries and generally allows a court to pronounce someone guilty for aiding and abetting in a crime even if he or she is not ...
The Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 8) is an Act of the Scottish Parliament. It extended previous legislation by also making it illegal for UK nationals to perform female genital mutilation outside the borders of the UK. There have been no known cases of girls from Scotland being sent abroad for the procedure. [1]
Assisted suicide is the ending of one's own life with the assistance of another. It is currently illegal under the law of the United Kingdom.In England and Wales, the Suicide Act 1961 prohibits "aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the suicide of another" with a penalty of up to 14 years' imprisonment. [1]
The Accessories and Abettors Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 94) is a mainly repealed Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.It consolidated statutory English criminal law related to accomplices, including many classes of encouragers (inciters).
The English legal authority William Blackstone, ... abetting means "to encourage or set on" and an abettor is "an instigator or setter on, ... In Scotland, under ...
By February 2008, the site contained 2,200 articles [4] and had outpaced Māori Wikipedia and Kashmiri Wikipedia.Reported reception, however, was mixed; Scotland on Sunday 's literary editor described it as "convoluted at best, and an absolute parody at worst", [5] while Ted Brocklebank, culture spokesman for the Scottish Tories, described it as a "cheap attempt at creating a language". [5]
Scotland has three indigenous languages: English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic. [169] [170] Scottish Standard English, a variety of English as spoken in Scotland, is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with broad Scots at the other. [171] Scottish Standard English may have been influenced to varying degrees by Scots.