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

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us the definition of theft,
which is "dishonestly

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appropriating 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?
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.
Appropriate is in Section 3.

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We've got property in Section 4,
so we can go to these sections

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and it will give us a definition
of of what that word means.

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

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law helps us understand. So for
example, I know that with

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appropriation, although we have
a definition in section three of

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the Theft Act, there's a lot of
case law out there that looks at

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what is meant by appropriation.
So it's not just acts of

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Parliament that you need to look
at, you often need to look at

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case law 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. So for

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example here we can see mail bag
and postal packets have the

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meanings given in the Postal
Services Act 2000.

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