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Homicide

if death ensue from any unlawful act, the offence is manslaughter, and not misadventure. (b) Se defendendo, as where a man

: the killing of one human being by another compare manslaughter, murder criminal homicide : homicide committed by a person with

See Archbold, Crim. Pleading and Practice, sub tit. 'Homicide,' and MANSLAUGHTER. In the law of defamation the defence that the occasion

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Frodmortel, or freomortel, an immunity for committing manslaughter, Dugd. Mon., tom. 1, p. 173.

a wife commit a felony, except treason, or murder, or manslaughter, in her husband' presence, the law presumed that she acted

guilty of infanticide (and not murder) and punishable as for manslaughter. The jury may, however, find the woman guilty of concealment

M, the brand or stigma of a person convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy. It was burned

in the case of inquisitions by coroners of murder and manslaughter till 1916, see Indictments Act, 1915, Sch. II. Indictments may

c. 100), consolidating and amending the law as to murder, manslaughter, wounding, etc.

any civil crime with special provisions in the case of manslaughter, treason, felony or rape. Hals. L.E., tit. 'Royal Forces

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