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Si quis unum percusserit, cum alium percutere vellet, in felonia tenetur
Si quis unum percusserit, cum alium percutere vellet, in felonia tenetur (3 Inst. 51), if a man kill one, meaning to kill another, he is held guilty of felony.
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat
MISTAKE. In criminal cases this maxim applies, as if a man should think he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or outlawed wherever he meets him and does so, this is murder. But a mistake
Horses
Act, s. 11; while the business of a 'knackers,' defined as a person whose trade it is to kill horses, is strictly regulated by ss. 5 and 6 of the Act and the regulations in the First
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flypaper
of paper that is coated with a sticky substance and suspended from an overhead object to trap and kill flies also a similar paper poisoned so as to kill flies on contact
intent
desire for further consequences or a precise result [there was a general intent to assault but not to kill] specific intent : intent to perform an illegal act with the knowledge or purpose that particular results will
Misadventure, excusable homicide by
homicide per infortunium; it arises where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another, as where a person is at work with a hatchet, and the head of it files off
Bullfight
arena for public amusement still popular in Spain Portugal and Latin American In the Spanish version a matador kills the bull with a sword after the bull has been weakened by wounds from small barbed rods and
Necation
Necation [fr. neco, Lat.], the act of killing. Necation, means the act of killing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1052.
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.
Regicide
Regicide, means the killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1286. Regicide, the murder of a sovereign;
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