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  2. Battery (crime) - Wikipedia

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    Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person. Battery is defined by ...

  3. Islamic criminal jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the different criteria to be sought in proving the crime, the evaluation of had crimes in the category of crimes against God's borders leads to a distinction between tazir crimes and others regarding the crime and the approach to the criminal; Which crime falls into which category may vary depending on understanding [18] In Islamic jurisprudence, the fact that the crime is ...

  4. Assault and battery - Wikipedia

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    Assault and battery is the combination of two violent crimes: assault (harm or the threat of harm) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence. Assault and Battery may also refer to:

  5. Tazir - Wikipedia

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    In Islamic Law, tazir (ta'zeer or ta'zir, Arabic: تعزير) lit. scolding; refers to punishment for offenses at the discretion of the judge or ruler of the state. [1] It is one of three major types of punishments or sanctions under Islamic law, Sharia — hadd, qisas / diyya and ta'zir. [2]

  6. Hirabah - Wikipedia

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    Moharebeh (also spelled muharebeh) is a Persian language term that is treated as interchangeable with ḥirabah in Arabic lexicons. [3] The related term muḥārib (Arabic: محارب, lit. 'perpetrator of muḥāribah') has been translated by English-language Iranian media as "enemy of God".

  7. Qisas - Wikipedia

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    Qisas or Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قِصَاص, romanized: Qiṣāṣ, lit. 'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", [1] [2] "eye for an eye", or retributive justice.

  8. FDNY unions say congestion toll will hurt response times ...

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    The city’s hated new congestion toll could dangerously delay FDNY response times — meaning the “difference between life and death,” unions repping thousands of Bravest warned Sunday.. The ...

  9. Blood money in Islam - Wikipedia

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    In Arabic, the word means both blood money and ransom, and it is spelled sometimes as diyah or diyeh. [ citation needed ] It only applies when murder is committed by mistake and secondly victim's family has the free consent to compromise with the guilty party; otherwise qisas applies.