to commit a felony

  • 81accessory before the fact — One who orders, counsels, encourages, or otherwise aids and abets another to commit a felony and who is not present at the commission of the offense. Com. v. Leach, 455 Pa. 448, 317 A.2d 293, 294. The primary distinction between the accessory… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 82felonious intent — An act of the will in which one forms a desire to commit a felony. As applied to crime of larceny, the intent which exists where a person knowingly takes and carries away the personal property of another without any claim or pretense of right… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 83housebreaking — Burglary. Breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent to commit any felony therein. See burglary. Under some statutes housebreaking may consist in breaking out of a house after access had been gained without breaking …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 84insidiatores viarum — /insidiystoriyz vayeram/ Highwaymen; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor …

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  • 85accessory before the fact — One who orders, counsels, encourages, or otherwise aids and abets another to commit a felony and who is not present at the commission of the offense. Com. v. Leach, 455 Pa. 448, 317 A.2d 293, 294. The primary distinction between the accessory… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 86felonious intent — An act of the will in which one forms a desire to commit a felony. As applied to crime of larceny, the intent which exists where a person knowingly takes and carries away the personal property of another without any claim or pretense of right… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 87housebreaking — Burglary. Breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent to commit any felony therein. See burglary. Under some statutes housebreaking may consist in breaking out of a house after access had been gained without breaking …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 88insidiatores viarum — /insidiystoriyz vayeram/ Highwaymen; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 89specific intent — The mental purpose to accomplish a specific act prohibited by law. The most common usage of specific intent is to designate a special mental element which is required above and beyond any mental state required with respect to the actus reus of… …

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  • 90Bank Robbery Act — A federal statute intended to state comprehensively criminal offenses committed against a national or federal bank, or a federal savings and loan association, in entering the institution with intent to commit a felony therein, in the taking of… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary