Murder - Law Dictionary Search Results
Misadventure, excusable homicide by
of punishment, and death ensue, it is manslaughter at lest, and in some cases, according to the circumstances murder: immoderate correction being unlawful, Fost. 275.
Duel
some quarrel precedent, wherein, if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47. Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were
Mercy, Recommendation to
for many years been common for a jury in finding a prisoner guilty, especially where the crime is murder, to accompany their verdict by a recommendation of the prisoner to the mercy of the Crown on certain
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Petit treason
2, every offence which, before the passing of the Act, would have amounted to petit treason, is deemed murder only.
Misdemeanour
or without hard labour. Any greater felony includes a less felony, so that, e.g., on an indictment for murder there may be a conviction of manslaughter; but no felony includes a misdemeanour, so that at Common Law
Seconds
duel. If either of the principals is killed, his adversary, and also the seconds, are all guilty of murder.
Domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium
his castle,' so that he is justified in killing another who breaks into his house to rob or murder him; and a sheriff to execute process may not break an outer door [see per Lord Ellenborough, C.J.,
Year and a day
person wounded must die within a year and a day in order to make the offender guilty of murder: 3 Inst. 53; 6 Rep. 107; and see WRECK.
Wite
punishment, pain, penalty, mulct, or criminal fine. The wite was a penalty paid to the Crown by a murderer. The were was the fine a murderer had to pay to the family or relatives of the deceased,
Uxoricide
Uxoricide, 1. The murder of one's wife, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1545.
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