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Infanticide

Infanticide, means (1) The act of killing a newborn child, esp.

infanticide : the killing of a newly or recently born child

may be (and very frequently is) convicted of manslaughter. The Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that a woman who wilfully causes the

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birth if there is evidence of that offence. The (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, s. 1(4), provides for such a finding in

R. v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 756. See the (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, when in certain cases a verdict of infanticide

Of or pertaining to infanticide engaged in or guilty of child murder

The murder of an infant born alive the murder or killing of a newly born or young child child murder

After birth subsequent to birth as postnatal infanticide postnatal diseases

the destruction of human offspring. It is either f'ticide or infanticide, which see, Dunglison's Med. Lex.

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