answered graded A+
the code is divided into parts by theme - correct answer ✔✔parts
statutory law - the written law - correct answer ✔✔sections
smaller sections within a section - correct answer ✔✔subsections
not law but added annotations - correct answer ✔✔commentary
outlines important cases that have been decided relevant to that section often grouped by
theme - correct answer ✔✔case law
this outlines the other sections of the CC that are related to this section - correct answer
✔✔related provisions
definitions, setting the framework, other things to know - correct answer ✔✔general sections
general sections, create offences, set out punishment, create defences, outline processes -
correct answer ✔✔types of sections
To make an offence subject to the jurisdiction of the Canadian courts requires that a significant
portion of the activities constituting the offence take place in Canada. There must be a real and
substantial link between an offence and this country. - correct answer ✔✔Libman v. R. (1985)
,The legal responsibility for damage or injury even if you are not negligent - can use due
diligence as a defence - correct answer ✔✔strict liability
a criminal offence in which intent is assumed to be present and need not be proven - correct
answer ✔✔absolute liability
The desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose - correct answer
✔✔general intent
The desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another - correct answer
✔✔specific intent
The external circumstances are complete where D utters, conveys or causes a person to receive
a threat to cause death or bodily harm, to burn destroy or damage property, to kill poison or
injure an animal of the person
The mental element consists of the intent to utter the prohibited threat. - correct answer ✔✔s.
264 Uttering threats
criminal code, reference - correct answer ✔✔s. 1 short title
for the code as a whole, key words - correct answer ✔✔s. 2 definitions
means any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person
and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature - correct answer ✔✔bodily harm
means the victim of an alleged offence - correct answer ✔✔complainant
means a charge in an information or indictment - correct answer ✔✔count
, means the period between six o'clock in the forenoon and nine o'clock in the afternoon of the
same day - correct answer ✔✔day
means the whole or any part of a building or structure that is kept or occupied as a permanent
or temporary residence, and includes
• (a) a building within the curtilage of a dwelling-house that is connected to it by a doorway or
by a covered and enclosed passage-way, and
• (b) a unit that is designed to be mobile and to be used as a permanent or temporary residence
and that is being used as such a residence - correct answer ✔✔dwelling house
person and owner, and similar expressions, include Her Majesty and an organization - correct
answer ✔✔every one
means a road to which the public has the right of access, and includes bridges over which or
tunnels through which a road passes - correct answer ✔✔highway
means a disease of the mind - correct answer ✔✔mental disorder
means a vehicle that is drawn, propelled or driven by any means other than muscular power,
but does not include railway equipment - correct answer ✔✔motor vehicle
means the period between nine o'clock in the afternoon and six o'clock in the forenoon of the
following day - correct answer ✔✔night
means a person who has been determined by a court to be guilty of an offence, whether on
acceptance of a plea of guilty or on a finding of guilt - correct answer ✔✔offender
a person responsible for preserving the public peace, such as a police officer, a mayor, or a
customs officer - correct answer ✔✔peace officer *