Murder - Law Dictionary Search Results
manslaughter
manslaughter : the unlawful killing of a human being without malice compare homicide, murder involuntary manslaughter : manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard human
Murderous
Of or pertaining to murder characterized by or causing murder or bloodshed having the purpose or quality of murder bloody sanguinary as the
Death penalty
means death by hanging. The punishment only for high treason and piracy with violence. The capital punishment for murder was abolished by the murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, 1965 and a sentence of life imprisonment substituted,
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Inquisition
how, when, and where the deceased came by his death; and if he came by his death by murder or manslaughter, the persons, if any, whom the jury find to have been guilty of such murder or
Regicide
Regicide, means the killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1286. Regicide, the murder of a sovereign; also the
premeditation
degree is the killing of a human being committed…intentionally and with "Kansas Statutes Annotated"] see also cold blood, murder compare intent NOTE: The terms premeditation malice aforethought deliberate, and willful are often used in statutes either along
Poison
medicated drink or draught]. The administration of poison or other destructive thing, if done with intent to commit murder, is a felony, punishable with penal servitude for life, or any term not exceeding three years, or with
impossibility
example, if the defendant constructed a bomb that failed to explode, factual impossibility would be a defense against murder charges, but not attempted murder. impossibility of per·for·mance 1 : a doctrine in contract law that a party
Sentence of a Court
of a Court, a definite judgment pro-nounced in a criminal proceeding. In the case of indictable offences (except murder, on conviction of which the Court is bound to pronounce sentence of death, by s. 2 of the
accessory
3 : the crime of being an accessory usually used with to and specifying the crime [convicted of murder and to murder "H. B. Zobel"]; compare substantive crime ac·ces·so·ry·ship n
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