DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN MULTI-TITLE OFFENCES AND OTHER SIMILAR CASES

In most legal systems of the world, the rule of multi-title offences is an accepted one whereby the punishment is the most serious when an act can come under a number of offence titles. However, it is subtly related to some other legal concepts such as specificity, contradiction, inclusion, appropriation and forcive judges. In most of time, distinguish between them is confused which can have serious repercussion. The purpose of the present article is to clarify the differences between multi-title offences with similar legal cases in a detailed manner to show how each can be enacted in the proper context. The paper shows how, in many cases, punishments can be wrongly determined and how the legislators can be effective when misunderstandings happen.