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Burke

To murder by suffocation or so as to produce few marks of violence for the purpose of obtaining a body

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,

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Actus reus

in a simple case of murder it is the victim's death (brought about by the conduct of the murderer) which is the actus reus in the mens rea is the murderer's intention to cause that death. In

Capital offences (Scotland)

35), by s. 56 enacts that 'a capital sentence shall no longer be competent except on conviction of murder or of offences against the Act (10 Geo 4, c. 38), which statute by s. 1 makes it

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

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,

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

Filicide

The act of murdering a son or a daughter also parent who commits such a murder

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

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