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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 880 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATTEMPT (See also:Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try) , in See also:law, an See also:act done with See also:intent to commit a See also:crime, and forming one of a See also:series of acts which would constitute its actual See also:commission if it were not interrupted. An attempt must proceed beyond See also:mere preparation, but at the same See also:time it must fall See also:short of the ultimate purpose in any See also:part of it. The actual point, however, at which an act ceases to be an attempt, and becomes criminal, depends upon the circumstances of each particular See also:case. A See also:person may be guilty of an attempt to commit a crime, even if its commission in the manner proposed was impossible. Every attempt to commit a See also:treason, See also:felony or indictable See also:misdemeanour is in itself an indictable misdemeanour, punishable by See also:fine or imprisonment, unless the attempt to commit is specifically punishable by See also:statute as a felony, or in a defined manner as a mis demeanour; and a person who has been indicted for a felony or Misdemeanour may, if the See also:evidence so warrants, be found guilty only of the attempt, provided that it too is a misdemeanour.

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