Parricide - Law Dictionary Search Results
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parricide [Latin parricida killer of a close relative] 1 : a person who murders his or her mother or father or sometimes a close relative 2 : the act of a parricide ...
Parricidal
Of or pertaining to parricide guilty of parricide...
Patricide or Parricide
Patricide or Parricide, the murder, or murderer, of a father. As to the punishment of that offence by the Roman Law, see Sand. Just.; 4 Bl. Com. 202. Our laws, unlike the ancient laws, distinguish in no respect between parricide, killing a husband, wife, or master, and simple murder....
Parricide
Parricide, same as patricide (q.v.)....
Quaestores parricidii
Quaestores parricidii, means quaestors of parricide. Two officers (usually appointed annually) who were deputized to search out and try all cases of parricide and other capital offenses, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253....
Parricidious
Parricidal...
Patricidal
Of or pertaining to patricide parricidal...
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