Criminal Law: Essential Elements of a Crime: Act

Act = Any bodily movement

• Bodily movements which do not qualify as acts
• Conduct not the product of one's own volition
• Reflexive or convulsive acts
• Acts while unconscious or asleep

• One has a legal duty to act when (1) there is a duty to act; (2) the person knows of the duty; and (3) the duty is reasonably possible to perform.
  

• Omissions giving rise to a legal duty to act:
• By Contract
• By Conduct
• Relationship between the parties
• Voluntarily assuming a duty of care
• One's conduct creates the peril