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Privilegium, property propter

Privilegium, property propter, a qualified property in animals fer' natur', i.e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others, 2 Bl. Com. 394; 2 Steph. Com.

Manslaughter

Manslaughter, the unlawful killing of another without malice express or implied. It is either-- (a) Voluntary, upon a sudden heat; or, (b)

Porteous mob

given orders to fire on the crowd who had assembled to witness the spectacle, and several persons were killed. For this he was tried and sentenced to death, but on the eve of his execution he was

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Poor laws

of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game or rabbits, and fishing, when severed from the occupation of the land; and (3) mines of every

Petit treason

Petit treason, treason of a lesser kind, as if a servant killed his master, a wife her husband, a secular or religious man his prelate. But by 9 Geo. 4,

Peremption

Peremption, a non suit, also a quashing or killing. See NONSUIT.

Peer

In 1935, on 12h December, the trial of Lord de Clifford took place on a charge of unlawful killing in connection with a collision by driving on a road. On 4th February, 1936, a motion that the

Patricide or Parricide

Sand. Just.; 4 Bl. Com. 202. Our laws, unlike the ancient laws, distinguish in no respect between parricide, killing a husband, wife, or master, and simple murder.

Orgild

Orgild, without recompense; as where no satisfaction was to be made for the death of a man killed, so that he was judged lawfully slain, Spelm.

Nehrucidal policy

Nehrucidal policy, policy which kills Nehruvian ideology, 'Narasimha's (Rao) Nehrucidal policy was perennially pursued by his successors...' [Constitutionally Inscribed Social Justice, p. 77].

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