irresistible impulse
An uncontrollable urge to do something. Irresistible impulse is not usually a defence in law and it will not afford a defence of insanity, unless it arises out of a disease of the mind as defined by the M’Naghten Rules. When, however, an impulse is irresistible in that the body reacts in an instinctive way to it, there may be a defence of involuntary conduct. An irresistible impulse may also constitute diminished responsibility. See also provocation.

• parental responsibility order
• parent company
• Parenting Agreement
• parenting order
• parents’ liability
• parent with care
• Pareto efficiency
• par in parem non habet imperium
• pari passu
• parish
• Paris Treaty
• parking offences
• parlementaire
• Parliament
• Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
• parliamentary committees
• parliamentary counsel
• Parliamentary Ombudsman
• parliamentary papers
• parliamentary privilege
• parol contract
• parole
• parol evidence
• parol evidence rule
• parol lease