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Definitions are always a really
important part of law and when

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you come to Acts of Parliament
there will be key definitions

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that you need to understand in
order to understand the Act

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itself.

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Now, sometimes definitions are
given in the main body of the

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Act.

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So if we looked at section one
of the Theft Act, it gives us

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the definition of theft, which
is "dishonestly appropriates

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property belonging to another
with the intention of

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permanently depriving the other
of it."

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But what do those things mean?

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What is meant by "appropriation"?

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So if we go back to our table of
contents, we can see that a

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number of these keywords and
phrases have their own sections.

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So "Dishonestly" is in Section 2,
"Appropriates" is in Section 3,

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We've got "Property" in Section 4.

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So we can go to these sections
and it will give us a definition

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of what that word means.

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Be aware though, it's not always
the last word.

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Very often case law helps us
understand.

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So for example, I know that with
"appropriation", although we have

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a definition in section three of
the Theft Act, there's a lot of

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case law out there that looks at
what is meant by "appropriation".

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So it's not just Acts of
Parliament that you need to look

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at, you often need to look at
case law

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as well.

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As well as having specific
sections that give definitions,

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you very often also have an
interpretation section and

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that's section 34 of the Theft
Act and it will give us key

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definitions of certain words
that are used in the Act.

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So for example here we can see
"mail bag" and "postal packet" have

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the meanings given in the Postal
Services Act 2000.