| William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...ufually .permit (if not direft) a general verditl of acquittal ni III. FELONIOUS homicide is an a£t of a very different nature from the former, being the killing of a human creature, of any age or fex, without juftification or excufe. This may be done either by filling one's felf, or another man.... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...to murder or manfi .u^htrr, it ia now the unh-erfal praftice to direft an acquittal. III. FELOKIOOS homicide is an act of a very different nature from...being the killing of a human -creature, of 'any age or fek, without juftification or eicufe. This may be done either by killing one's felf, or another man.... | |
| Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...self-defence, the judges win usually permit (.if not direct) a general verdict of acquittal. MANSLAUGHTER. Felonious homicide is an act of a very different nature from the former, being the killing of a human creatun of any age or sex, without justification or excuse. But in this thert are also degrees of guilt... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...; the act of the relation assisting being construed the same as the act of the party him.sdr. III. Felonious homicide is an act of a very different nature...age or sex, without justification or excuse. This may be done either by killing one's self or another man. Self-murder the law has ranked among the highest... | |
| sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...self-defence, the judges will usually permit (if not direct) a general verdict of acquittal ". III. FELONIOUS homicide is an act of a very different nature...age or sex, without justification or excuse. This may be done either by killing one's self, or another man. ' Stiemh.de jure Goth, 1.3. c.4. k Fost.287.... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...self-defence, the judges will usually permit (if not direct) a general verdict of acquittal ". III. FELONIOUS homicide is an act of a very different nature...age or sex, without justification or excuse. This may be done either by killing one's self, or another man. i Slirruii..;. ;«,,• Goth, 1.3. c.4. k... | |
| William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...self-defence, the judges will usually permit (if not direct) a general verdict otacquittaF' (380). 3. Felonious Homicide.} " Felonious homicide is an act...the killing of a human creature of any age or sex, tuithout justification or excuse. This may be done either by killing one's self, or another man" (381)... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...husband and wife, killing an assailant in the necessary defence of each other respectively, are excused. Felonious homicide is .an act of a very different...the killing of a human creature, of any age or sex, nil lion t justification or excuse, This may be done either by killing one's self or anpther man ;... | |
| Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 512 pages
...appear that the slayer had no other possible means of escaping his assailant.J Felonious homicide is the killing of a human creature of any age or sex, without justification or excuse, and is divided into murder and manslaughter. Wilful and deliberate murder is thus defined : " When... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...self-defence, the judges usually permit, if not a direct, a general verdict of acquittal. HOMICIDE, FELONIOUS, is an act of a very different nature from the former,...done either by killing one's self, or another man : for the consideration of which see the articles WANSLAUGHTER, MURDER, and SUICIDE. HOMICIDE, JUSTIFIABLE,... | |
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