Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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indispensable-element test

Criminal law. A common-law test for the crime of attempt, based on whether the defendant acquires control over the thing that is essential to the crime. 0 Under this test, for example, a person commits a crime by buying the explosives with which to detonate a bomb. See ATTEMPT (2).