Preterintention

Preterintention (or preterintentionality) is a feature of criminal law in several legal traditions that describes a situation wherein a criminal perpetrator intends to commit a crime, but unintentionally commits a crime of greater severity than the one they originally intended. For example, an unintentional homicide committed during an attempted robbery.

The concept occurs in various European and Latin American legal systems, including Belgium, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, but the term is obsolete in English.

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