Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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heat of passion.
Rage, terror, or furious hatred suddenly aroused by some immediate provocation, usu. another person's words or actions. 0 At common law, the heat of passion could serve, in a murder defense, as a mitigating circumstance that would reduce the charge to manslaughter. - Also termed sudden heat of passion; sudden heat; sudden passion; hot blood; furor breuis. Cf. COLD BLOOD; COOL BLOOD.