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535:). When a defendant is found not guilty of the offence he is charged with but is found guilty of a less serious offence (or he wishes to plead not guilty to the more serious offence but guilty to a lesser one), the section allows a verdict or plea of guilty to the lesser offence to be entered even though the offence may not be explicitly charged on the indictment. It also states if a defendant refuses to enter a
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360:, since powers of arrest had depended on whether an offence was a felony or a misdemeanour. Arrestable offences were defined as crimes for which the maximum sentence for an adult was five years or more. The section set out the circumstances in which a citizen or a
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405:(2) Subsection (1) above shall replace the rules of the common law on the question when force used for a purpose mentioned in the subsection is justified by that purpose.
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486:, and (if it existed) the common law offence of compounding a misdemeanour, were abolished on 1 January 1968. (In Working Paper No.72, at paragraph 43, the
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565:This Part implements recommendations of the
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373:Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005
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415:Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
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707:The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 12(1)
698:The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 11(1)
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153:Succession to the Crown Act 1707
128:21 July 1967 (Parts II and III)
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183:Sale of Horses Act 1588
179:Sale of Horses Act 1555
125:1 January 1968 (Part I)
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