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suspect charged with a crime could not have
committed that crime.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT – a separate message
originated by the addressee to inform the
originator that his message has been received and
is understood.

ACQUISITIVE CRIMES – are those which when
committed, the offender acquires something as a
consequence of his criminal act.

ACQUITTAL – one is acquitted if, after he has been
arraigned and trial has been begun, upon a valid
indictment or information, he is discharged by a
competent court. It is also a verdict that a criminal
defendant is not guilty or the finding of a judge that
the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction.

ACT – any bodily movement tending to produce some
effect in the external world. In Certiorari, the act
contemplated in the law is one which creates some
sort of status, i.e., determinative of a certain legal
right. A merely threatened act, or an act which is
preliminary and does not determine a legal right,
cannot be reviewed in a certiorari proceeding.

ACT OF LASCIVIOUSNESS – acts of lewdness
committed upon a person of either sex, short of
lying with a woman and anything leading up to it.
What constitutes lewd or lascivious conduct must
be determined from the circumstances of each
case.

ACTION - breech mechanism of a gun, by which it is
loaded and unloaded.

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