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      Actus reus book

      ByCatherine Elliott
      BookFrench Criminal Law

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2001
      Imprint Willan
      Pages 5
      eBook ISBN 9781843924500
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      ABSTRACT

      Like English criminal law, the French analyse their offences as requiring both an actus reus (l’élément matériel) and a mens rea (l’élément moral). Some academic authors1 also add a third requirement, that the offence must be laid down in a written source of law, known as the principe de légalité. This principle developed as a backlash to the perceived abuses of judicial discretion under the Ancien Régime. Royal ordonnances were drafted in vague terms, ordering punishment, for example, ‘according to the requirements of the case, in such a way as will be an example to all others’.2

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