Murder - Law Dictionary Search Results
Parchment
in Coroners Act, 1887, which maintained the use of parchment in the case of inquisitions by coroners of murder and manslaughter till 1916, see Indictments Act, 1915, Sch. II. Indictments may be on durable paper (ibid., Sch.
Omne majus continet in se minus
minus. Jenk. Cent. 208, (The greater contains or embraces the less; e.g., a person on an indictment for murder may be convicted of manslaughter.)
Odio et atia
de bono etmalo, addressed to the sheriff to inquire whether a man committed to prison upon suspicion of murder were committed on just cause of suspicion, or only upon malice and ill-will; and if, upon the inquisition,
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Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa
Winsor v. Reg., (1866) LR 1 QB 390, where the prisoner was hanged after a second trial for murder.
Necessity, homicide by
country; but to kill a man in order to eat him, and so escape death by hunger, is murder, see Reg. v. Duldey, (1884) 14 QBD 273; and JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.
Murdrum
were too poor, the whole hundred, was liable, 4 Bl.Com. 195. As to the rates of compensation for murder amongst the Anglo-Saxons, see 2 Hall. Mid. Ages, 133.
Moral turpitude
attributed to a feeling of hurt or revenge; an act of personal vendetta. Per se an act of murder will not come within the broad concept of 'moral turpitude' as interpreted by courts, Kuldeep Singh v. State
Drunkenness
what he is doing is dangerous or likely to inflict serious injury he will not be guilty of murder, R. v. Meade (1909) 1 KB 895; but see R. v. Beard, 1920 AC 479. Habitual Drunkards.--The confinement
De odio et atia
De odio et atia, an obsolete writ which commanded the sheriff to inquire whether a prisoner charged with murder was committed on general cause of suspicion, or merely propter odium et atiam, for hatred and ill-will, with
Diss
Geo. 4, c. 31, as authorized the diss., after execution, of the body of a person convicted or murder.
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