Patricide Or Parricide
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Patricide or Parricide, the murder, or murderer, of a father. As to the punishment of that offence by the Roman Law, see Sand. Just.; 4 Bl. Com. 202. Our laws, unlike the ancient laws, distinguish in no respect between parricide, killing a husband, wife, or master, and simple murder.
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