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Intention in Law
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 338–344 (2010)
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intention in law ‐ intentions of people entwined with the law, for answering legal questions contract is not ordinarily legally enforceable ‐ unless each party intended to be bound by the agreement when it was made criminal liability, imposed only after finding to the effect ‐ that a defendant performed the actus reus general intent crime, the commission of which requires ‐ some sort of objectionable mental state third misleading usage of term ‘intent’ in criminal law ‐ doctrine of ‘transferred intent’ in homicide law guilt and innocence in criminal law ‐ turning on the answer to some question about intent mental state of defendant ‐ at the time of the crime, meeting standard of guilt or falling short of it
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Placing blame: a theory of the criminal law.Michael S. Moore - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Transferred Intent.Douglas Husak - 1996 - Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 10 (1):65-98.
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