| 单词 | overt deed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasovert deed b. Law. overt act (also † overt deed): an act which can be proved to have been done, implying criminal intent. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > criminal intent > act implying overt act1533 actus reus1902 1351–2 Act 25 Edw. III Stat. 5. c. 2 De ceo provablement soit atteint de overt faite [1527, 1542 Rastell open dede] par gentz de lour condicion.] 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. lxxxiiiiv Than be suche wordes yet no treason, without some maner of ouert & open actuall dede therwith. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1962) X. 74 Fides visa, faith, which, by an ouvert act, was declared, and made evident. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 36 'Tis the Thought of the Heart, which makes the Treason: the Overt-Act is but the Evidence of it. 1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes ii. ii. 17 Is the King Assur'd of this, by any Overt-Act; Or any close Conspiracy reveal'd? 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vii. 124 He had good Reasons to think you were a Big-Endian in your Heart; and as Treason begins in the Heart before it appears in Overt-Acts, so he accused you as a Traytor. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. ii. 21 In all temporal jurisdictions an overt act, or some open evidence of an intended crime, is necessary..before the man is liable to punishment. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. v. 99 As nothing appeared like an overt act of treason, both father and son were soon set at liberty. 1880 Mind 5 499 We find Zeus and Apollo..punishing an evil intention as much as an overt act. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 26 363 It appears that any state has power to convert a state of peace into a state of war by an overt act manifesting its intention to do so. 1997 Legal Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. 66 The indictment alleged, as overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy, that Johnson had robbed the Maryland apartment and shot the two boys. < as lemmas |
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