Crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to property.
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Examples for "arson"
Examples for "arson"
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Authorities said they were investigating it as a possible case of arson.
2
An Orange Hall was destroyed in a suspected arson attack early today.
3
A SCHOOL in Co Dublin will reopen today despite an arson attack.
4
A police inquiry begins today and arson has not been ruled out.
5
He was serving a 10- year sentence for conspiring to commit arson.
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At the inquest, the evidence suggested suspicion of incendiarism and suicide.
2
They were spreading broadcast throughout the country violent reports of incendiarism and riot.
3
Danger from incendiarism was now removed, but a new peril appeared.
4
Ordinary fires, if not kindled, originate either from accident, spontaneous combustion, or incendiarism.
5
The proclamations threatened incendiarism if the peasants did not revolt.
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With regard to the amount of fire-raising there are no trustworthy statistics.
2
Much more favourite and efficient methods were passive resistance, flight, and fire-raising or murder.
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There must be close on a hundred of them; and they're fire-raising as they come.
4
On the other hand Mrs. Hampson and Priscilla believed that Emma managed the fire-raising herself.
5
The last and most desperate means of defense which the serfs possessed were fire-raising and murder.
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