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  • noun Alternative form of rei.

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Examples

  • As every law student knows mens rea is Latin for "intention".

    Planet Malaysia 2009

  • As every law student knows mens rea is Latin for "intention".

    Planet Malaysia 2009

  • The company responsible, Compañia Mexicana de Transportación Aérea, is now known as Mexicana.

    Mexico this month - April 2009

  • As legal scholar Kent Roach warned in 2003, that act subverts the common-law insistence that evidence of mens rea is required to secure a criminal conviction.

    Fraud and Fearmongering in the “War on Terror” : Law is Cool 2009

  • The company responsible, Compañia Mexicana de Transportación Aérea, is now known as Mexicana.

    Mexico this month - April 2009

  • I know that mens rea is usually a requirement for criminal liability, but can anyone take seriously the "I didn't mean to" defense as rejection of adequate mens rea?

    Balkinization 2007

  • I know that mens rea is usually a requirement for criminal liability, but can anyone take seriously the "I didn't mean to" defense as rejection of adequate mens rea?

    Balkinization 2007

  • I know that mens rea is usually a requirement for criminal liability, but can anyone take seriously the "I didn't mean to" defense as rejection of adequate mens rea?

    Balkinization 2007

  • I know that mens rea is usually a requirement for criminal liability, but can anyone take seriously the "I didn't mean to" defense as rejection of adequate mens rea?

    Balkinization 2007

  • I know that mens rea is usually a requirement for criminal liability, but can anyone take seriously the "I didn't mean to" defense as rejection of adequate mens rea?

    Balkinization 2007

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