Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention ( mens rea ) to commit the act, and to have actually committed the act ( actus reus ).

It is important to distinguish between the intention sufficient to obtain possession of a thing and the intention required to commit the crime of possessing something illegally, such as banned drugs, firearms or stolen goods.

Once his son arrives, John reveals to the hostages his intention to commit suicide so his heart can be used to save his son.

Lock pick tools fit in the same category as crowbars or hammers, meaning they are legal to possess and use unless they are used to commit a crime or if it is shown there was " intention to commit a crime " in which case " Possession of tools with the intention of committing a crime " applies-which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail.

In it, Cathcart announces his intention to commit suicide.

In modern usage, kidnapping or abduction of a child is often called child stealing and parental kidnapping, particularly when done not to collect a ransom but rather with the intention of keeping the child permanently ( often in a case where the child's parents are divorced or legally separated, whereupon the parent who does not have legal custody will commit the act, also known as " childnapping ").

Reich wrote that he believed his father intended to commit slow suicide, but whatever the intention his father fell ill with lung disease and died in 1914.

On his independence day speech of 17 August 1965, Sukarno declared his intention to commit Indonesia to an anti-imperialist alliance with China and other communist regimes, and warned the Army not to interfere.

All political parties, association and organizations opposed to the Fascist regime were dissolved, and everybody who was proven to have " committed or expressed intention to commit actions directed to violently subvert the social, economic or national order or undermine national security or to oppose or obstruct the actions of the Government " could be sent into exile to remote locations by the police.

James Fitzjames Stephen's " Digest of the Criminal Law " stated that " a seditious intention is an intention to bring into hatred or contempt, or to exite disaffection against the person of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, or the government and constitution of the United Kingdom, as by law established, or either House of Parliament, or the administration of justice, or to excite His Majesty's subjects to attempt otherwise than by lawful means, the alteration of any matter in Church or State by law established, or to incite any person to commit any crime in disturbance of the peace, or to raise discontent or disaffection amongst His Majesty's subjects, or to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of such subjects.

The meaning of " seditious tendency " is defined in section 3 of the Sedition Act 1948 and in substance it is similar to the English common law definition of sedition, with modifications to suit local circumstances .< Ref > See for example James Fitzjames Stephen's " Digest of the Criminal Law " which states that under English law " a seditious intention is an intention to bring into hatred or contempt, or to exite disaffection against the person of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, or the government and constitution of the United Kingdom, as by law established, or either House of Parliament, or the administration of justice, or to excite His Majesty's subjects to attempt otherwise than by lawful means, the alteration of any matter in Church or State by law established, or to incite any person to commit any crime in disturbance of the peace, or to raise discontent or disaffection amongst His Majesty's subjects, or to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of such subjects.

Isabella says that if she indeed does commit adultery, she will sleep with him, implying that she has no intention of committing adultery.

In English criminal law, attempted murder is the crime of more than merely preparing to commit unlawful killing and at the same time having a specific intention to cause the death of human being under the Queen's Peace.

They were charged with conspiring to commit fraud and soliciting loans they had no intention of repaying.

However he does acknowledge that massacres against groups other than those in the Genocide Convention and where the intention of the perpetrators did not specifically intend to commit genocide, are a grey area.

Then one would have to apply the fiction which converts an intention to commit GBH into the mens rea of murder.

After a clone of MVP goes rogue and leaves the Initiative with major casualties, Justice and these former New Warriors, along with the two surviving Scarlet Spiders, officially inform Iron Man of their intention to quit the Initiative and act as Counter Force, a form of independent oversight for the program ; as the group are all registered superhumans, Iron Man is unable to act against Justice's team unless they commit an illegal act.

He was charged with " interfering with police performance of duties on two different occasions in 2003, and the intention to commit acts to prevent police from performing their duties.

* January 20, 1983: St. Louis County, Missouri Parkway South Middle School The eighth grade shooter brought a blue duffel bag containing two pistols and a murder / suicide note that outlined his intention to kill the next person heard speaking ill of his older brother, Ken, to school.

Although suicide is not the intention of self-harm, the relationship between self-harm and suicide is complex, as self-harming behaviour may be potentially life-threatening.

Feiler rejected charges that their intention was to glorify suicide bombers and accused Mazel of " practicing censorship ".

When he informed the producers of his intention to leave the show following the second season, his character was killed off in a spectacular suicide scene in October 1995.

Written by an Officer Schächer, it concluded there was no doubt Duggan had run onto the road with the intention of committing suicide, and no suggestion that another party was involved.

There are, however, some signs in the novel that somewhat elucidate Ambler's intention ; for example Carruthers's unrequited love for the evil Countess Schverzinski, which makes him want to put a bullet through his head when he finds out that she is dead, a suicide which can only be prevented through Casey's intervention.

The first part of the testament talked of his motivations in the three decades since volunteering in World War I, repeated his claim that neither he nor anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939, stated his reasons for his intention to commit suicide, and praised and expressed his thanks to the German people for their support and achievements.

To reach such locations, those with the intention to die by suicide must often walk long distances to reach the point where they finally decide to jump.

Trebek then ends the show, many times by announcing that money will not be awarded to charity or by declaring his intention to resign or commit suicide.

Wang, thinking that the four rebels only wanted his life and didn't have an intention to besiege the city, committed suicide.

In both books, a young man displays remarkable perceptiveness in spotting her intention to end her life and defies convention to save her, not only in tackling a stranger on intimate matters but in spending time in the woman's hotel bedroom to talk her out of suicide.

It is clear that his real intention is to commit suicide in the woods with a shotgun and therefore save himself and the others further pain.

A Married Women ( Restraint Upon Anticipation ) Act was passed in 1949 “ to equalise, to render inoperative any restrictions upon anticipation or alienation attached to the enjoyment of property by a woman ,” while the Married Women ( Maintenance ) Act of 1949 was enacted with the intention of improving the adequacy and duration of financial benefits for married women.

It was Pissarro ’ s intention during this period to help “ educate the public ” by painting people at work or at home in realistic settings, without idealizing their lives.

In deontology, an act may be considered right even if the act produces a bad consequence, if it follows the rule that “ one should do unto others as they would have done unto them ”, and even if the person who does the act lacks virtue and had a bad intention in doing the act.

Though unaware of the British intention to settle Norfolk Island, which was not announced until 5 December 1786, Forster referred to “ the nearness of New Zealand ; the excellent flax plant ( Phormium ) that grows so abundantly there ; its incomparable shipbuilding timber ”, as among the advantages of the new colony.

In a footnote printed in the second edition of Utilitarianism, Mill says, “ the morality of the action depends entirely upon the intention — that is, upon what the agent wills to do .” Elsewhere, he says, “ Intention, and motive, are two very different things.

One possibility “ involves supposing that the ' morality ' of the act is one thing, probably to do with the praiseworthiness or blameworthiness of the agent, and its rightness or wrongness another .” Jonathan Dancy rejects this interpretation on the grounds that Mill is explicitly making intention relevant to an assessment of the act not to an assessment of the agent.

An interpretation given by Roger Crisp draws on a definition given by Mill in A System of Logic where he says an “ intention to produce the effect, is one thing ; the effect produced in consequence of the intention, is another thing ; the two together constitute the action .” Accordingly, whilst two actions may outwardly appear to be the same they will be different actions if there is a different intention.

Subtleties of intention and interpretation make the “ full meaning ”, whatever concept we might have of it, too variable and subjective for any systematic treatment.

In the context of the Council's stated intention “ to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society ”, Dignitatis Humanae spells out the Church's support for the protection of religious liberty.

* The Factory Constitution Law ( 1971 ), which strengthened the rights of individual employees “ to be informed and to be heard on matters concerning their place of work .” The Works ’ Council was provided with greater authority while trade unions were given the right of entry into the factory “ provided they informed the employer of their intention to do so ”.

“ Help for the vulnerable ” was renamed “ help for overcoming particular social difficulties ,” and the numbers of people eligible for assistance was greatly extended to include all those “ whose own capabilities cannot meet the increasing demands of modern industrial society .” The intention of these amendments was to include especially such groups as discharged prisoners, drug and narcotic addicts, alcoholics, and the homeless.

“ Will be sentenced to death for treason any person who, with the intention of helping the hostile Power, or of causing harm to the German or allied troops, is guilty of one of the crimes of paragraph 90 of the German Penal Code .” The case referred to in the above-mentioned paragraph 90 consists of " Conducting soldiers to the enemy.

Simultaneous yet unrelated meetings began occurring throughout Germany, each with the intention of planning a “ Christian-democratic party .” The “ Christlich-Demokratische Union ” was established in Berlin on 26 June 1945, and in Rheinland and Westfalen in September of the same year.

The term should not be confused with “ intention ” or the psychoanalytic conception of unconscious “ motive ” or “ gain .”

Unity began without intention of becoming a “ church ” as demonstrated by the name “ Unity School of Christianity .” For the first three-quarters of a century, “ it had been an auxiliary type of religion, a booster station amplifying the power of Christian faith .” ( Bach, 1965, p 5 ) Originally it was “ A religious-educational movement teaching the use of God-consciousness in everyday life, clarifying the working of divine law, explaining the action of the mind which it calls the connecting link between God and man .” ( Bach, 1965, p 5 ) Leaders and followers, equally shared their understandings in attempts to find “ universal truths ,” or laws that were true for all persons, all religions, all places, all times.