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Poison
how much is taken. If the resultant effect of administering into the system produces a violent, morbid or fatal changes or which destroys living tissues, the substance can be safely called poison, Goodwill Paint and Chemical Industry
Murder
Murder [fr. morthor, morthen, Sax.; murdrum, Low Lat.]. It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, with malice aforethought, either...
Discrepancy and contradiction
and contradiction, 'discrepancy' has to be distinguished from 'contradiction'. Whereas contradiction in the statement of the witness is fatal for the case, minor discrepancy or variance in evidence will not make the prosecution's case doubtful. The normal
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Death
22. As to an action brought for damages arising from death by accident, neglect, etc., see the (English) Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 93) [(English) Lord Campbell's Act] to 1908, as amended by
Bastard
Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if...
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
to land within 6 months before death (action to be within one year after death), and by the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846 (Lord Campbell's Act) (q.v. sub-tit. CAMPBELL'S (LORD) ACT), as to negligence causing death (action to
Act of God
of a number of years preventive action can be taken, Lord Westbury defined the act of God (damnum fatale in Scotch Laws) as an occurrence which no human foresight can provide against and of which human prudence
Pleuropneumonia
Inflammation of the pleura and lungs a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia esp a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle
nostalgia
Homesickness esp a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia due to homesickness
myxomatosis
a viral disease usually fatal of rabbits
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