Last Updated：2025/11/21

(criminal law) Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.

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prior knowledge

Source Word

prior knowledge

uncountable

(criminal law) Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.

Japanese Meaning

あらかじめ知っている事実や事情、行為が不法であると認識されるに足る既知の状況

The jury concluded that the defendant's prior knowledge of the illegal scheme was enough to establish criminal intent.

陪審は、被告が違法な計画について事前にその事情を認識していたことが犯罪の故意を立証するのに十分であると結論づけた。

Sense（1）

(criminal law) Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.

The defendant was convicted because the prosecutor proved the defendant's prior knowledge of the victim's particular vulnerability.

Sense（2）

All our policies require a declaration of no prior knowledge as a matter of routine.

Sense（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prior, knowledge.

I had no prior knowledge of linguistics, but that didn't stop me from writing a dictionary.