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Federal law defines accessories after the fact as persons who provide criminals with certain aid in order to hinder a criminal's apprehension or prosecution: [8] Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension ...
Accession might also be (from Latin accedere, to go to, approach), in law, a method of acquiring property adopted from Roman law (see: accessio), by which, in things that have a close connection with or dependence on one another, the property of the principal draws after it the property of the accessory, according to the principle, accessio cedet principali.
In law, selective enforcement occurs when government officials (such as police officers, prosecutors, or regulators) exercise discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law. The biased use of enforcement discretion, such as that based on racial prejudice or corruption, is usually considered a ...
Pages in category "Law enforcement operations against organized crime" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Thus if a someone builds on ground that someone else owns, the building belongs to the owner of the ground, unless it is a building of a moveable nature, as a tent; for the rule of law is superficies solo cedit. A tree belonging to one person, if planted in the ground of another person, belongs to the owner of the ground as soon as it has taken ...
During one such law enforcement operation in May 2021, one of the defendants, Daniel Gonzalez, intentionally slammed his car into a vehicle driven by one of the DEA agents in a bid to obstruct the ...
Controlled operations, an action by a law enforcement agency to allow a criminal act to occur, for example the importation of illicit substances, so that as many of the subjects involved in the act can be identified as possible during the process of importation.
Various property types are used in law but the terminology can be seen in economic reports. Sometimes in economics, property types are simply described as private or public/common in reference to private goods (excludable and rivalrous goods like a phone), [ 9 ] as well as public goods (non-excludable and non-rivalrous goods, like air), [ 10 ...