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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 the laws of his country.(2) It may be committed for the advancement of public justice, as in the following instances: (a) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) In case of a riot or rebellious assembly, officers endeavouring to disperse the mob are justified in killing them, both at Common Law and by the (English) Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5). (g) Where the prisoners in a gaol assault the galore or officer, and he in his defence kills any of them; it is justifiable for the sake of preventing an escape. (d) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execution of his office, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person fo...

Justifying security

Justifying security. Administrators in certain cases are required by the Court of Probate to give justifying security-i.e., the sureties to the administration bond must, in an affidavit, swear that they are, after the payment of their debts, worth a sum specified. Justifying security is required by the Court according to the circum-stances of each case, subject to the rule that whenever administration is granted in default of the appearance of persons cited, but not personally served with the citation, or for the use and benefit of a person of unsound mind, unless it is granted to a committee appointed by the Court of Chancery, justifying security must be given, Williams on Executors....

Justified by law

Justified by law, 'justified' according to Black's Legal Dictionary means: Done on adequate reasons sufficiently supported by credible evidence, when weighed by unprejudiced mind, guided by common sense and by correct rules of law. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary assigns this meaning for 'justification': The showing in court that one had sufficient reason for doing that which he is called to answer; the ground for such a plea. Lexically, the sense is clear. An act is justified by law if it is warranted, validated and made blameless by law, Raj Kapoor v. Laxman, AIR 1980 SC 605 (960): (1980) 2 SCC 175: (1980) 2 SCR 512. (Indian Penal Code, s. 79)...

justifiable

justifiable : capable of being justified [ reliance] ...

justified

Arranged and spaced so as to line up at the left side or right side of the printed page or on both sides as left justified right justified...

justifiable homicide

justifiable homicide see homicide ...

justify

justify -fied -fy·ing vt 1 : to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable [does not a denial of bail] 2 : to show to have had a legally sufficient reason or cause [a defendant may not set up his own standard of conduct to or excuse himself "State v. Doss, 568 P.2d 1054 (1977)"] vi 1 : to show a legally sufficient reason for an act 2 : to swear an oath as to the ownership of sufficient property [they shall in an amount no less than $200 "Oregon Revised Statutes"] ;also : to qualify as a surety by swearing such an oath [the defendants sought to as bail "State v. Blaisdell, 253 A.2d 341 (1969)"] ...

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