Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Also termed excusable homicide
See SELF-DEFENSE. 2. A killing mandated or permitted by the law, such as execution for a capital crime or killing to prevent a crime or a criminal's escape.
Excusable
adj. (Of an illegal act or omission) Not punishable under the specific circumstances <excusable neglect>.
Excusable assault
an assault committed accident or while doing a lawful act by law means, with ordinary caution and with any unlawful intent.
excusable assault
See ASSAULT.
excusable homicide
1. Homicide resulting from a person's lawful act, committed without intention to harm another. 2. See justifiable homicide (1).
excusable neglect.
A failure - which the law will excuse - to take some proper step at the proper time (esp. in neglecting to answer a lawsuit) not because of the party's own carelessness, inattention, or willful disregard of the court's process, but because of some unexpected or unavoidable hindrance or accident or because of reliance on the care and vigilance of the party's counsel or on a promise made by the adverse party.
inexcusable neglect
See NEGLECT.
inexcusable neglect.
Unjustifiable neglect; neglect that implies more than unintentional inadvertence. ( A finding of inexcusable neglect in, for example, failing to file an answer to a complaint will prevent the setting aside of a default judgment.