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Regicide
Regicide, means the killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1286.Regicide, the murder of a sovereign; also the murderer.The killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1286....
Adultery
Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be...
Cattle
Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic.The term, though often limited to horned domestic animals, may include (see Wright v. Pearson, LR 4 QB 582) horses and sheep; and also pigs and asses, R. v. Chapple, Russ & Ry. 77; R. v. Whitney, 1 Mood. 3.Means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 483, p. 246 [Animal Health Act, 1981, s. 89(1) (UK)]As to injury to cattle by a dog, see Dogs Act, 1906, in which, by s. 7, 'cattle' includes 'horses, mules, asses, goats and swine.' See Dog.As to larceny of cattle, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3, and as to killing cattle, etc., with intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal killed, see s. 4.As to the malicious wounding of cattle, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 40 and 41.As to the prevention o...
Deodand
Deodand [fr. deo dandum, Lat.], a personal chattel which had been the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature; it was forfeited to the Crown to be applied to pious uses and distributed in alms by the high almoner; but the right to deodands had been for the most part granted out to the lords of manors or other liberties to the perversion of the original design. The law made the following extraordinary distinction, that no deodand was due where an infant under the age of discretion was killed by a fall from a cart or horse or the like, not being in motion, whereas if an adult person fell thence and was killed the thing was certainly forfeited. In all indictments for homicide, the instrument of death and the value were presented and found by the grand jury (as that the blow was given by a certain bludgeon, value 9d.), that the Crown or the grantee might claim the deodand; for it was no deodand unless it was presented as such by a jury of twelve men. Deodands were abolis...
Duel
Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused.In modern times a duel is a combat with weapons between two persons upon some quarrel precedent, wherein, if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47.Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were by no means unfrequent in England up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, e.g., the Duke of Wellington exchanged shots without effect with Lord Winchelsea in 1829; Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.'It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel renders an ...
Malice
Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or aforethought. It is either express, as when one with a sedate and deliberate mind and formed design kills another, which formed design is evidenced by certain circumstances discovering such intentions, as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm; or implied, as where one wilfully poisons another; in such a deliberate act the law presumes malice, though no particular enmity can be proved. The nature of implied malice is also illustrated by the maxim, 'Culpa lata dolo 'quiparatur'-when negligence reaches a certain point it is the same as intentional wrong-'Every one must be taken to intend that which his the natural consequence of his actions'-if any one acts in exactly the same way as he would do it he bore express malice to another, he cannot be allowed to say he does not, 4 Steph. Com.'Malice ...
Necation
Necation [fr. neco, Lat.], the act of killing.Necation, means the act of killing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1052....
Animals
Animals may be divided into--(1) Domestic animals, such as dogs, horses, cows, etc., sometimes called animals mansuet' natur'. See White v. Fox, 48 TLR 641.(2) Animals that are naturally dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such as lions, bears, etc.(3) Animals fer' natur', butharmless, such as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME.Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property in this country. But there is no property in those of the third class until they are caught or reclaimed. As to the liability of the owner for mischief done by a wild beast, or by a vicious domestic animal, see MISCHIEVOUS ANIMAL.Dogs. As to injury by dogs and seizure of stray dogs, see DOG.Malicious Damage. By the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 40, the unlawful and malicious killing, maiming, or wounding of cattle is made a felony. And by s. 41, the unlawful and malicious killing or wounding any animal not being cattle, but being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or be...
Chaud medley
The killing of a person in an affray in the heat of blood and while under the influence of passion thus distinguished from chance medley or killing in self defense or in a casual affray...
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