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The 1902 constitution contained a clause that disenfranchised Virginians convicted of numerous crimes, including "treason or of any felony, bribery, petit larceny, obtaining money or property under false pretenses, embezzlement, forgery, or perjury." The current constitution was adopted in 1972. [3]
a false representation. of a material past or existing fact. which the person making the representation knows is false. made for the purpose of causing. and which does cause. the victim to pass title. to his property [3] [broken footnote] False pretenses is a statutory offense in most jurisdictions; subject matter covered by statute varies ...
t. e. The courtroom of the United States Courthouse in Augusta, Georgia. The criminal law of the United States is a manifold system of laws and practices that connects crimes and consequences. In comparison, civil law addresses non-criminal disputes. The system varies considerably by jurisdiction, but conforms to the US Constitution.
v. t. e. In criminal law, a lesser included offense is a crime for which all of the elements necessary to impose liability are also elements found in a more serious crime. It is also used in non-criminal violations of law, such as certain classes of traffic offenses. For example, the common law crime of larceny requires the taking and carrying ...
Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law (also statutory law), where in many cases it remains in force.
She was convicted of one count of obtaining money by false pretense in Colonial Heights in April 2014, and three misdemeanor counts of obtaining money by false pretenses in Henrico in June.
Law. v. t. e. In criminal and property law, theft by finding occurs when someone chances upon an object which seems abandoned and takes possession of the object, but fails to take steps to establish whether the object is genuinely abandoned and not merely lost or unattended before taking it for themselves. [1]
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he: makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or. alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or. omits to make a true entry in the business ...