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Infanticide
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Murder
includes a less, a person indicted for murder may be (and very frequently is) convicted of manslaughter. The Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that a woman who wilfully causes the death of her newly-born child shall be guilty
Birth, Concealing
she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth if there is evidence of that offence. The (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, s. 1(4), provides for such a finding in the case of the acquittal of a woman
Sentence of a Court
9 of the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1864; R. v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 756. See the (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, when in certain cases a verdict of infanticide may be returned, notwithstanding that the circumstances were
Infanticidal
Of or pertaining to infanticide engaged in or guilty of child murder
Postnatal
After birth subsequent to birth as postnatal infanticide postnatal diseases
Prolicide
[fr. proles, Lat., offspring, and c'do, to kill], the destruction of human offspring. It is either f'ticide or infanticide, which see, Dunglison's Med. Lex.
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