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Justifiable homicide
Justifiable homicide, the killing of a human creature without incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by...
Obsolete
whether the prisoner fled for his crime in criminal cases (see the title PEINE FORTE ET DURE, and FLY FOR IT), but the view of Lord Coleridge, C.J., in Reg. v. Ramsay and Foote, (1883) 48 LT 735, to
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Highways
highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheasants flying across it, R. v. Pratt, (1855) 4 E&B 860; and see Fitzhardinge v. Purcell, (1908) 2 Ch 168,
Abscond
Abscond, to fly the country in order to escape arrest (see FLY FOR IT) for crime. By s. 6 of the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict., C. 62), in
Kakapo
at night It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance It has large wings but can fly only a short distance Called also owl parrot night parrot and night kaka
Ferry
by Local Authorities) Act, 1919. It includes a bridge of boats, pontoons or rafts, a swing bridge, a fly-bridge and a temporary bridge and the approaches to, and landing places of, a ferry. [Railways Act, 1989 (24
Gyro pigeon
A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight when projected from a spring trap It is used as a flying
Pseudoneuroptera
division of insects Zooumll reticulated wings as in the Neuroptera but having an active pupa state It includes the dragon flies May flies white ants etc By some zooumllogists they are classed with the Orthoptera by...
Dayfly
genus Ephemera and related genera of many species and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state the ephemeral fly so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state See Ephemeral fly
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