Poison Cup - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A cup containing poison...
Poison
Poison (poison, Fr.; fr. potio, Lat., a drink--applied originally to a 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 imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years [(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 11], and so is the attempt to administer with like intent, whether bodily injury be effected or not (s. 14).On a trial for murder of A, by poisoning, evidence of a subsequent poisoning of other persons is admissible against the prisoner, Reg. v. Geering, (1849) 18 LJMC 215; Rex v. Armstrong, (1922) 38 TLR 631; as also of antecedent poisoning, Reg. v. Garner, (1863) 3 F&F 681.Unlawful and malicious administering of poison so as to endanger life or to inflict grievous bodily harm is a felony, punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment; and such adminis-tration with intent to i...
Cup
A small vessel used commonly to drink from as a tin cup a silver cup a wine cup especially in modern times the pottery or porcelain vessel commonly with a handle used with a saucer in drinking tea coffee and the like...
Poison
Any agent which when introduced into the animal organism is capable of producing a morbid noxious or deadly effect upon it as morphine is a deadly poison the poison of pestilential diseases...
Poisonable
Capable of poisoning poisonous...
Grain, Poisoned
Grain, Poisoned, Act prohibiting the use of (26 & 27 Vict. c. 113). See POISON...
Cupful
As much as a cup will hold...
cup shaped
shaped like a cup...
Egg cup
A cup used for holding an egg at table...
Sneak cup
One who sneaks from his cups one who balks his glass...
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