Killing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Suicide and euthanasia
Suicide and euthanasia, the view that distinction between 'suicide' and 'euthanasia' is logically inconsistent may not be quite incorrect, because in passive euthanasia, wherever it has been accepted as legally permissible, consent of the patient, if...
Supari
word which stands for betel nut and common parlance it has gained the meaning of money for contract killing, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, AIR 2002 SC 409: (2001) 9 SCC 1 (11).
Swans
5s. on any person who takes a swan's egg on land where he has not the right of killing game. See (English) Protection of Birds Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 52), and ANIMALS.
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Trout
snare, spear, gaff, strokehaul, snatch or the like, or stone or other missile, or roe for catching or killing salmon, trout, or freshwater fish. A gaff or tailer may, however, be used as an auxiliary to angling
Weapon
knives, nets, poison, snares and traps and any instrument or apparatus capable of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(35)
Whitehart silver
the forest of Whitehart, paid into the Exchequer, imposed by Henry III. upon Thomas de la Linda, for killing a beautiful white hart which that king before had spared in hunting, Camd. Brit. 150.
manslaughter
manslaughter : the unlawful killing of a human being without malice compare homicide, murder involuntary manslaughter : manslaughter resulting from the failure to
malice
and usually requiring some degree of deliberation or premeditation or wanton disregard for life [murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought "California Penal Code"] malice in fact : actual
Malice
distinguish it from malice in law, which merely denotes absence of legal excuse. To amount to murder, a killing must be committed with 'malice aforethought.' A aforethought does not necessarily imply premeditation, but it implies intention, which
homicide
homo human being + caedere to cut, kill] 1 : a person who kills another 2 : the killing of one human being by another compare manslaughter, murder criminal homicide : homicide committed by a person with
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