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  2. United States tort law - Wikipedia

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    Transferred intent is the legal principle that intent can be transferred from one victim or tort to another. [1] In tort law, there are generally five areas in which transferred intent is applicable: battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land, and trespass to chattels. Generally, any intent to cause any one of these five torts which ...

  3. Classes of offenses under United States federal law - Wikipedia

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    Maximum prison term [1] Maximum fine [2] [note 1] Probation term [3] [note 2] Maximum supervised release term [4] [note 3] Maximum prison term upon supervised release revocation [5] Special assessment [6] [note 4] Felony A Life imprisonment (or death in certain cases of murder, treason, espionage or mass trafficking of drugs) $250,000: 1-5 ...

  4. United States federal probation and supervised release

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    The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment, [1] or in addition to home detention, [2] while the latter is imposed in addition to imprisonment.

  5. Outline of tort law - Wikipedia

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    Duty of care – Liability arises when a tortfeasor fails to observe a duty of care toward the claimant. With regard to liability for landowners, the duty to visitors in tort law is dependent on how the claimant entered the land: Trespasser – A person who is trespassing on a property without the permission on the owner. Conversely, the status ...

  6. Tort - Wikipedia

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    breach: the defendant breaches that duty through an act or culpable omission damages: as a result of that act or omission, the plaintiff suffers an injury causation: the injury to the plaintiff is a reasonably foreseeable [ i ] consequence of the defendant's act or omission under the proximate cause doctrine.

  7. Perjury - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] If perjury was committed with the intent of convicting or acquitting someone of an offence which carries a prison sentence, the maximum penalty is AU$224,000 or 14 years imprisonment or both. [7] New South Wales: Under Section 327 of the Crimes Act 1900, perjury is punishable by imprisonment of up to 10 years. [8]

  8. Duty (criminal law) - Wikipedia

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    Duty (criminal law), is an obligation to act under which failure to act , results in criminal liability. Such a duty may arise by a person's status in relation to another, by statute, by contract, by voluntarily acting so as to isolate someone from help by others, and by creating a danger.

  9. Criminal negligence - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, criminal negligence is an offence that involves a breach of an objective standard of behaviour expected of a defendant. It may be contrasted with strictly liable offences, which do not consider states of mind in determining criminal liability, or offenses that requires mens rea , a mental state of guilt.