Penetration

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In criminal law. In rape and some other sexual crimes, actual carnal knowledge is requisite, but the slightest penetration is sufficient (102 N. Y. 234), it being enough if any part of the virile member be within the labia of the pudendum (1 Car. & K. 393). Rupture of the hymeneal membrane is not requisite, though, in the absence of such rupture, proof of penetration should be clear. 8 Car. & P. 641.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The entering to that extent to which the defendant’s person must enter that of his victim in the crime of rape.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

See Rape.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A term used in criminal law, and denoting (in cases of alleged rape) the insertion of the male part into the female parts to however slight an extent; and by which insertion the offense is complete without proof of emission. Brown.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

crimes, the act of inserting the penis in the female organs of generation. This has been denied to be sufficient to constitute a rape without emission. (q- v-) See on this subject, 12 Co. 37; Hawk. bk. 1, c. 41, 8. 3; 1 Hale, P. C. 628; 1 East, P. C. 437, 8; Russ. & Ry. C.C. 519.