Killing - Law Dictionary Search Results
dressed to kill
attired in strikingly attractive clothing usually of women
Brawner
A boor killed for the table
murdered
killed unlawfully as the murdered woman
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Enecate
To kill off to destroy
Infanticide
Infanticide, means (1) The act of killing a newborn child, esp. by the parents or with their consent, in archaic usage, the word referred also
Homicide
his wife, child, parent, or servant, and not from any vindictive feeling. III. Felonious, of two kinds:- (a) Killing oneself. See SUICIDE. (b) Killing another, which is either-- 1) Murder (see that title); or (2) Manslaughter (see
Burglary
s. 1 of the (English) Burglary Act, 1896]. The question whether and how far it is justifiable to kill a burglar is by no means clear. If violence on the part of the burglar be reasonably apprehended,
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
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
Child in need of care and protection
resides with a person (whether a guardian of the child or not) and such person-(a) has threatened to kill or injure the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or (b)
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