Patricide - Law Dictionary Search Results
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patricide [Latin patricida, from patr- pater father + -cida killer] 1 : an individual who murders his or her father 2 : the murder of an individual's own father ...
Patricidal
Of or pertaining to patricide parricidal...
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....
Patricide
The murderer of his father...
Parricide
Parricide, same as patricide (q.v.)....
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