Suicide - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: suicideSuicide and euthanasia
Suicide and euthanasia, the view that distinction between 'suicide' and 'euthanasia' is logically inconsistent may not be quite incorrect, because in passive euthanasia, wherever it has been accepted as legally permissible, consent of the patient, if he be in a sound mental condition, has been regarded as one of the prerequisites. So, if one could legally commit suicide, he could also give consent for his being allowed to die. But then, the legal and other questions relatable to euthanasia are in many ways different from those raised by suicide. One would, therefore, be right in making a distinction logically and in principle between suicide and euthanasia, though it may be that if suicide is held to be legal, the persons pleading for legal acceptance of passive euthanasia would have a winning point. However, for the present case it is sufficient to say that the justification for allowing persons to commit suicide is not required to be played down or cut down because of any encourageme...
suicide clause
suicide clause : a provision limiting the liability of an insurer to a return of net premiums paid if an insured commits suicide within a stipulated period ...
Suicide
Suicide. (1) Self-slaughter; (2) a self-slaughterer. See FELO DE SE.The act of taking one's own life, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1447....
Felo de se
Felo de se (a felon with respect to himself); one who feloniously commits suicide. The barbarous mode of burying such persons, in a place where four roads met, with a stake driven through their bodies, was abolished by 4 Geo. 4, c. 52, which directed burial in the churchyard or other burial ground (without divine service) between the hours of nine and twelve at night. The (English) Interments (Felo de se) Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 19), repealed and re-enacted the above Act, omitting the provisions as to the hours of burial, and allowing, by permission of the ordinary, a religious service, the Prayer Book expressly forbidding the use of the Burial Service therein contained in the case of those who die 'laying violent hands on themselves,' Escheat or forfeiture for felony is abolished by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A coroner's inquest (see CORONER) must beheld in every case of suicide, and in the absence of evidence of unsoundness of mind a verdict of felo...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose of the Act means where one spouse has so treated the other and manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental cruelty is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, AIR 2002 SC 591 (595): (2002) 2 SCC 73. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ia)]Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security would also constitute cruelty, Shobha Rani v. Modhukar Reddi, (1988) 1 SCC 105: AIR 1988 SC 121 (...
VerbarFelo de se
One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act a suicide...
Haje
The Egyptian asp or cobra Naja haje It is related to the cobra of India and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood Its bite is very venomous It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide and hence is sometimes called Cleopatras snake or asp See Asp...
harakiri
A ritual form of suicide by slashing the abdomen formerly practiced in Japan and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials disembowelment also written but incorrectly hari kari...
Race suicide
The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate...
Self destroyer
One who destroys himself a suicide...
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