Self Homicide - Law Dictionary Search Results
Self homicide
The act of killing ones self suicide
homicide
unlawful intent justifiable homicide : homicide that is committed in self-defense, in defense of another and esp. a member of one's
murder
or rape) compare cold blood, cooling time, homicide, manslaughter NOTE: Self-defense, necessity, and lack of capacity for criminal responsibility (as because
battered woman's syndrome
abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defense even though the threat or danger was not imminent. Battered … is used as a defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the
Battered Woman's syndrome
abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defence even though the threat or danger was not imminent; Battered … syndrome is used as defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the
Prerogative of mercy
e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476
Self-defence
Self-defence, is a legal right and as with other legal rights … estimation of the law of England, that it pardons even homicide, if committed se defendendo, or in order to preserve them.
Provocation
of a kind which would deprive an ordinary man of self-control. See ASSAULT. … Provocation. In law no provocation whatever can render homicide justifiable, but it Generally speak-ing, words do not amount to
Defence
generally, that he is not guilty. The defence of one's self, and of such as stand in the relations of husband … an excuse for breaches of the peace, nay even for homicide itself; but care must be taken that the resistance does
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