Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

felo de se

n. See SUICIDE (2). "'Felo de se,' or felon of himself is freely spoken of by the early writers as self-murder. Hence one who killed himself before he arrived at the age of discretion or while he was non compos mentis, was not a felo de se, or suicide . . . . [Bly the early common law suicide was a felony and was punished by ignominious burial and forfeiture of goods and chattels to the king." Rollin M Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 120 (3d ed. 1982).