NOUN
- (law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal); often at issue in murder trials
How To Use mens rea In A Sentence
- D will be liable where he has used another person to procure the commission of the offence and that person is not guilty of the offence due to, for example, infancy, lack of mens rea or insanity.
- For starters, the statutes should re-written to require proof of mens rea -- evidence that an individual knew what he or she was doing was wrong and still purposely chose to violate the law.
- The second, mens rea, is one of the thorniest ? Times, Sunday Times
- In the preceding chapter we have discussed, among other things, those classes of excuses where the lack of mens rea derives from the agent lacking individual autonomy and consequently being not imputable.
- Could they then be expected to prove that the defendant had the necessary mens rea? Times, Sunday Times
- Both actus reus and mens rea must concur at the same time!
- The requirement of mens rea for unlawful act manslaughter may be easily satisfied.
- It is by no means certain that the courts would always be willing to redefine the mens rea requirement in order to secure an acquittal.
- The Apex Court accepted the contention of the petitioners that mens rea is necessary for commission of offences under these Sections.
- The spread of negligence liability would not have to result in the broadening of the traditional category of mens rea, and would not mean that intention, recklessness, and negligence would henceforth be bracketed together.
