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homicide homicide
homicide , in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder , otherwise it is called manslaughter . A homicide is excusable if it is the result of an accident that occurred... Read more
Mass murder Mass murder
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inquest inquest
inquest in law, a body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters. The term also refers to the inquiry itself as well as to the findings of the inquiry. The most usual form of inquest today is that conducted by the coroner to discover the cause of a death that was sudden, violent, or... Read more
murder murder
murder criminal homicide , usually distinguished from manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought. The most direct case of malicious intent occurs when the killer is known to have adopted the deliberate intent to commit the homicidal act at some time before it is actually committed.... Read more
Burke and Hare Burke and Hare
Burke and Hare These men are universally believed to have been body snatchers, but in fact they made a good living in the 1820s supplying an Edinburgh anatomy school with dead bodies obtained by murder. William Burke and William Hare never were grave-robbers. They are reputed to have hit upon... Read more
ripper ripper
ripper a murderer who mutilates victims' bodies; the term was first used in the late 19th century in connection with Jack the Ripper, and in the late 1970s began to be used of the Yorkshire Ripper, the name given to Peter Sutcliffe (1946– ), who murdered 13 women in northern England... Read more
Strict Liability Strict Liability
STRICT LIABILITY Although there is some dispute as to whether Anglo-American criminal law has always required the state to prove that the defendant had a culpable mental state for every element of an offense, there is general consensus that, except for the rule that ignorance of the law is no... Read more
King Philips War King Philips War
King Philip's War 1675-76, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag . His Wampanoag name was Metacom, Metacomet, or Pometacom. Upon the death (1662) of his brother,... Read more
Jugurtha Jugurtha
Jugurtha , c.156-104 BC, king of Numidia, a grandson of Masinissa . On the death of Micipsa (118 BC), the royal power devolved upon his two sons and upon his adopted son Jugurtha. The latter ousted the other two heirs and united Numidia under his rule. In the process, however, some Italians were... Read more
Killing Killing
232. Killing See also 112. DEATH . acaricide a substance or preparation for killing mites or ticks. Aceldama a place of bloodshed, so called after the field purchased by Judas with the bribe he received for betraying Christ. amicicide Rare. 1. the murder of one friend by... Read more

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