First Degree Murder - Law Dictionary Search Results
first-degree murder
Matched in: Term first-degree murder
murder
Matched in: Term murder
premeditation
or planning of an act beforehand [designed so that it requires to tamper with it] [murder in the first degree is the killing of a human being committed…intentionally and with "Kansas Statutes Annotated"] see also cold blood, murder
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diminished capacity
that renders a person unable to form the specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime (as first-degree murder) but that does not amount to insanity called also diminished responsibility partial insanity compare insanity, irresistible impulse
implied acquittal
implied acquittal : an acquittal of a more serious offense (as first-degree murder) that is considered to result from a verdict which convicts the defendant of a lesser included offense
manslaughter
manslaughter : the unlawful killing of a human being without malice compare homicide, murder involuntary manslaughter : manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard human … passion or on sudden provocation NOTE: In states that grade manslaughter by degrees, voluntary manslaughter is usually a first-degree offense.
Public order
II, Schedule VII) The expression 'public order' was inserted in Article 19(2) of the Constitution by the Constitution First Amendment Act, 1951, the wide concept of 'public order' is split up under different heads. It enables the … specified locality. The distinction between the areas of 'law and order' and 'public order' is one of the degree and extent of the reach of the act in question on society. It is the potentiality of the … even tempo of life of the community. That being so, even all murders do not disturb or affect 'public order', Banchan Singh v. State of
Piracy
act of piracy. These rules prohibit (a) the seizing of a merchant vessel in time of war unless first ordered to submit to visit and search; (b) the attack on such a vessel unless it refuses to … the term of the natural life of such offender. As to the punishment of principals in the second degree and accessories before or after the fact, see s. 4 of the same Act. Various acts which do … in respect of any ship or vessel, shall assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or
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