Dictionary Search: "homicide" - Pakistan Law Portal

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.

Vehicular homicide.

See HOMICIDE.

criminal homicide

1. Homicide prohibited and punishable by law, such as murder or manslaughter. 2. The act of purposely, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently causing the death of another human being. Model Penal Code § 210.1 (1997).

criminally negligent homicide

See negligent homicide under HOMICIDE.

criminally negligent homicide.

See negligent homicide.

excusable homicide

1. Homicide resulting from a person's lawful act, committed without intention to harm another. 2. See justifiable homicide (1).

felonious homicide

See HOMICIDE,

homicide

n. The killing of one person by another. - homicidal, adj. "The legal term for killing a man, whether lawfully or unlawfully, is 'homicide.' There is no crime of 'homicide.' Unlawful homicide at common law comprises the two crimes of murder and manslaughter. Other forms of unlawful homicide have been created by statute: certain new forms of manslaughter (homicide with diminished responsibility, and suicide pacts), infanticide, and causing death by dangerous driving." Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law 204 (1978).

homicide by misadventure

See ACCIDENTAL KILLING.

homicide per infortunium

[Latin "homicide by misfortune"] The unintentional killing of another while engaged in a lawful act; ACCIDENTAL KILLING. See PER INFORTUNIUM.

innocent homicide

Homicide that does not involve criminal guilt.

innocent homicide.

See HOMICIDE

justifiable homicide

1. The killing of another in self-defense when faced with the danger of death or serious bodily injury. -

negligent homicide