Oxford v Moss (1979) is an English criminal law case, dealing with theft of intangible property: information. The High Court: Divisional Court, to whom the legal question of the taking of a proof (final draft) exam paper was referred by magistrates, and which is not one of binding precedent, ruled that information could not be deemed to be intangible property and therefore was incapable of being stolen within the Theft Act 1968.
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| - Oxford v Moss (1979) is an English criminal law case, dealing with theft of intangible property: information. The High Court: Divisional Court, to whom the legal question of the taking of a proof (final draft) exam paper was referred by magistrates, and which is not one of binding precedent, ruled that information could not be deemed to be intangible property and therefore was incapable of being stolen within the Theft Act 1968. (en)
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| - Divisional Court, Queens Bench Division (en)
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| - Kenneth Oxford, Chief of Merseyside Police v. Moss (en)
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- information (en)
- Theft: ingredients of offence (en)
- deemed intention to permanently deprive under s.6 if goodness or virtue substantially or essentially lost (en)
- intangible property (en)
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| - Oxford v Moss (1979) is an English criminal law case, dealing with theft of intangible property: information. The High Court: Divisional Court, to whom the legal question of the taking of a proof (final draft) exam paper was referred by magistrates, and which is not one of binding precedent, ruled that information could not be deemed to be intangible property and therefore was incapable of being stolen within the Theft Act 1968. (en)
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| - Argyll v. Argyll [1965] 2 W.L.R. 790 (en)
- Fraser v. Evans [1968] 3 W.L.R. 1172 (en)
- Seager v. Copydex Ltd. [1967] 2 All E.R. 415 (en)
- Peter Pan Manufacturing Corporation v. Corsets Silhouette ltd. [1963] 3 All E.R. 402 (en)
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| - Theft Act 1968, Section 4, Section 6 (en)
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| - Police v Oxford, Liverpool Magistrates Court (en)
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