Canadian Online Legal Dictionary
Found 410 results
A
- Absconding
- Absolute discharge
- Absolute jurisdiction offence
- Absolute liability
- Abuse of process
- Accountability
- Accuracy
- Accused
- Acquittal
- Actus reus
- Additive effect
- Adjournment
- Administration of justice offence
- Adult
- Adult detention
- Adult sentence
- Adversarial
- Aid and abet
- Air gun
- Alias
- Allege
- Alternative measures
- Ammunition
- Ancillary powers doctrine
- Antagonistic effect
- Appeal
- Appearance notice
- Appellant
- Appellate court
- Approved Drug Screening Equipment
- Approved instrument
- Approved screening device
- Arbitrariness
- Arraignment
- Arrest
- Arrest warrant
- Assault
- Ataxia
- Attempt
- Attendance order
- Attorney General
- Authorization
- Automated Fingerprint Identification System
- Automatism
- Autrefois acquit
- Autrefois convict
B
C
- Calibration check
- Calibre
- Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC)
- Carding
- Causation
- Caution
- Central nervous system
- Challenge for cause
- Change of venue
- Charge
- Charge document
- Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Child
- Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome
- Circle sentencing
- Community programs
- Community service
- Community service order
- Community supervision
- Complainant
- Concurrent sentence
- Conditional discharge
- Conditional sentence
- Conditional supervision
- Conditions of probation
- Conference
- Conjunctiva
- Conspiracy
- Contempt of court
- Conviction
- Corroborating evidence
- Counselling
- Count
- Court of Appeal
- Court of criminal jurisdiction
- Criminal Code
- Criminal justice system
- Criminal record
- Criminal responsibility
- Criminalization
- Crown
- Crown attorney
- Crown brief
- Crown onus
- Crown prosecutor
- Curative proviso
- Curtilage
- Custody
D
- Dagenais/Mentuck test
- Dangerous offender
- Defence counsel
- Defence of property
- Defendant
- Deferred custody and supervision
- Delinquent
- Deposit
- Detention
- Determinate
- Deterrence
- Diaphoresis
- Diastolic blood pressure
- Digital forensics
- Direct indictment
- Discharge
- Discharge possible date
- Disclosure
- Discretionary bench warrant
- Disposition
- Diversion
- Division
- DNA canvass
- DNA Warrant
- Double
- Drug Evaluation and Classification Program
- Drug Recognition Evaluations
- Dual procedure offence
- Due diligence
- Due process
- Duplicitous
- Duress
- Duty counsel
- Dyskinesia
- Dysphoria
E
F
G
H
I
- Imagination inflation
- Impairment
- Implementational duties
- Impression, latent (invisible)
- Impression, patent (visible)
- Impression, take away
- Incendiary fire
- Indeterminate
- Indictable offence
- Indictment
- Individual characteristics
- Individualization (fingerprint)
- Information
- Information to obtain
- Informational duties
- Informer privilege
- Innocence at stake exception
- Insufflation
- Intensive rehabilitative custody and supervision
- Intensive support and supervision
- Intention
- Intermittent sentence
- Intoxication
- Investigative detention
- IT forensics
J
M
- Magazine
- Mainspring
- Malicious prosecution
- Mandatory parole
- Matrix
- MDMA
- Mens rea
- Mental disorder
- Mental disorder or insanity defence
- Mental element
- Mental Health Act
- Mental health court
- Mental health diversion
- Mentally disordered accused
- Metabolite
- mg/100mL
- Miosis
- Miscarriage of justice
- mmol/L
- Mohan criteria
- Moral innocence
- Moral involuntariness
- Mydriasis
O
P
- Pardon
- Parent
- Parole
- Parolee
- Party
- Peace bond
- Peace officer
- Peremptory challenge
- Petit jury
- Phallometric testing
- Pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Plea
- Plea bargain
- Police synopsis
- Polypharmacy
- Pre-enquete
- Pre-sentence report
- Precision
- Prefer
- Preliminary inquiry
- Presumption of innocence
- Presumptive analyses (toxicology)
- Presumptive offence
- Prima facie
- Prima facie case
- Primary ground
- Primer (firearms)
- Private prosecution
- Probation
- Problem-solving court
- Production
- Progress report
- Prohibited act
- Promise to appear
- Prosecutor
- Prosecutorial discretion
- Provincial director
- Provocation
- Psychological detention
- Psychosis
- Ptosis
- Public prosecution
- Publication ban
- Pupilometer
Q
R
- R.
- Racial profiling
- Reasonable belief
- Reasonable expectation of privacy
- Reasonable grounds to believe
- Reasonable grounds to suspect
- Reasonable suspicion
- Recidivism
- Recognizance
- Regulatory offence
- Release order
- Remand (adjournment)
- Render by surety
- Respondent
- Restitution
- Restorative justice
- Retention time
- Retribution
- Reverse onus
- "Revolving-door" phenomenon
S
- Search
- Search and seizure
- Search incident to arrest
- Search incident to investigative detention
- Search warrant
- Secondary ground
- Self-defence
- Sensitivity
- Sentence review
- Sentencing hearing
- Serious violent offence
- Serve
- Severance
- Sexual tort claim
- Show cause hearing
- Solicitor-client privilege
- Somnolence
- Special duty counsel
- Specific intent
- Specificity
- Sphygmomanometer
- Stand aside
- Stand by
- Standard of proof
- Standardized Field Sobriety Test
- Status offence
- Stay of proceedings
- Street check
- Strict liability
- Strip search
- Subpoena
- Summary conviction offence
- Summons
- Superior court
- Superior court of criminal jurisdiction
- Surety
- Suspended sentence
- Swear an information
- Synergistic effect
- Systolic blood pressure