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commit — com·mit vb com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting vt 1 a: to put into another s charge or trust: entrust consign committed her children to her sister s care b: to place in a prison or mental hospital esp. by judicial order was found to be gravely … Law dictionary
commit — To make a commitment; to perpetrate, as to commit burglary. Under the statute making it an offense to conspire to commit an offense against the United States, the word means no more than bring about. It is not necessary that the conspiracy… … Ballentine's law dictionary
commit — vb 1 Commit, entrust, confide, consign, relegate are comparable when they mean to assign to a person or place for some definite end or purpose (as custody or safekeeping). Commit is the widest term; it may express merely the general idea of… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
West Coast offense — In American football, West Coast Offense ( WCO ) is one of two similar but distinct offensive strategic systems of play: (A) the Air Coryell system; or (B) more commonly the pass play system popularized by Bill Walsh. However, WCO may simply… … Wikipedia
Cat Stevens' comments about Salman Rushdie — Following Ayatollah Khomeini s February 14, 1989 death threat fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, convert to Islam and former recording artist Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, made statements widely interpreted as endorsing the fatwa. This… … Wikipedia
United States Treason Laws — see Wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United States Code/Title 18/Part I/Chapter 1152381. TreasonWhoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the… … Wikipedia
crime — crimeless, adj. crimelessness, n. /kruym/, n. 1. an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited. 2. criminal activity and those… … Universalium
Burglary — Burglar redirects here. For the comedy film, see Burglar (film). Criminal law … Wikipedia
Complicity — For the novel, see Complicity (novel). Complicit redirects here. For the play, see Complicit (play) … Wikipedia
conspiracy — conspirative, adj. conspiratorial /keuhn spir euh tawr ee euhl, tohr /, conspiratory, adj. conspiratorially, adv. /keuhn spir euh see/, n., pl. conspiracies. 1. the act of conspiring. 2. an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan… … Universalium
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