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Forensic Medicine

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Forensic medicine, the science which applies the principles and practice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in a court of justice. It comprehends, in a more extensive sense, medical police, or those medical precepts which may prove useful to the legislature or the magistracy. This science is also termed medical jurisprudence, legal medicine, and state medicine. Consult the works of Taylor, Guy, Beck, or Tidy on the subject.

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