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Homicide
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HomicideCriminal law. According to Blackstone, it is the killing of any human creature. This is the most extensive sense of this word, in which the intention is not considered. But in a more limited sense, it is always understood that the killing is by human agency, and Hawkins defines it to be the killing of a man by a man.Homicide may perhaps be described to be the destruction of the life of one human being, either by himself, or by the act, procurement, or culpable omission of another. When the death has been intentionally caused by the deceased himself, the offender is called felo de se; when it is caused by another, it is justifiable, excusable, or felonious. The person killed must have been born; the killing before birth is balled foeticide.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Intention
A design, resolve, or determination of the mind.
Life
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.
Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Foeticide
Medical juridic. Recently, this term has been applied to designate the act by which criminal abortion is produced.
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Homine capto in withernam
English law. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to take one who has taken any bondsman, and conveyed him out of the country, so that he cannot be replevied.
Homine eligendo
English law. The name of a writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a new man, to keep the one part of a seal appointed for statutes merchant.
Homine replegiando
When a man is unlawfully in custody, he may be restored to his liberty by writ de hominereplegiando, upon giving bail; or by a writ of habeas, corpus, which is the more usual remedy.
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Home
Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently.
Home port
The port where the owner of a ship resides; this is a relative term.
Home port doctrine
A principle of the general maritime law whereby a maritime lien existed for the supply of necessaries (infra)to a vessel only if the necessaries were supplied away from the vessel's home port. The home port doctrine is still enshrined in French maritime law in respect of necessaries and master's disbursements (infra), but has been repealed by statute in the modern maritime law of most common law jurisdictions.
Homestall
The mansion-house.
Homestead
The place of the house or home place. Homestead farm does not necessarily include all the parcels of land owned by the grantor, though lying and occupied together. This depends upon the intention of the parties when the term is mentioned in a deed, and is to be gathered from the context.
Homicide
Homine capto in withernam
English law. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to take one who has taken any bondsman, and conveyed him out of the country, so that he cannot be replevied.
Homine eligendo
English law. The name of a writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a new man, to keep the one part of a seal appointed for statutes merchant.
Homine replegiando
When a man is unlawfully in custody, he may be restored to his liberty by writ de hominereplegiando, upon giving bail; or by a writ of habeas, corpus, which is the more usual remedy.
Homo
This Latin word, in its most enlarged sense, includes both man and woman.
Homologation
Civil law. Approbation, confirmation by a court of justice, a judgment which orders the execution of some act; as, the approbation of an award, and ordering execution on the same.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Intention
A design, resolve, or determination of the mind.
Life
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.
Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Foeticide
Medical juridic. Recently, this term has been applied to designate the act by which criminal abortion is produced.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Homine capto in withernam
English law. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to take one who has taken any bondsman, and conveyed him out of the country, so that he cannot be replevied.
Homine eligendo
English law. The name of a writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a new man, to keep the one part of a seal appointed for statutes merchant.
Homine replegiando
When a man is unlawfully in custody, he may be restored to his liberty by writ de hominereplegiando, upon giving bail; or by a writ of habeas, corpus, which is the more usual remedy.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Home
Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently.
Home port
The port where the owner of a ship resides; this is a relative term.
Home port doctrine
A principle of the general maritime law whereby a maritime lien existed for the supply of necessaries (infra)to a vessel only if the necessaries were supplied away from the vessel's home port. The home port doctrine is still enshrined in French maritime law in respect of necessaries and master's disbursements (infra), but has been repealed by statute in the modern maritime law of most common law jurisdictions.
Homestall
The mansion-house.
Homestead
The place of the house or home place. Homestead farm does not necessarily include all the parcels of land owned by the grantor, though lying and occupied together. This depends upon the intention of the parties when the term is mentioned in a deed, and is to be gathered from the context.
Homicide
Homine capto in withernam
English law. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to take one who has taken any bondsman, and conveyed him out of the country, so that he cannot be replevied.
Homine eligendo
English law. The name of a writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a new man, to keep the one part of a seal appointed for statutes merchant.
Homine replegiando
When a man is unlawfully in custody, he may be restored to his liberty by writ de hominereplegiando, upon giving bail; or by a writ of habeas, corpus, which is the more usual remedy.
Homo
This Latin word, in its most enlarged sense, includes both man and woman.
Homologation
Civil law. Approbation, confirmation by a court of justice, a judgment which orders the execution of some act; as, the approbation of an award, and ordering execution on the same.
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