justifiable killing
1killing — I noun annihilation, assassination, bloody murder, decimation, destruction, elimination, execution, extermination, homicide, liquidation, massacre, murder, murderous assault, slaughter, slaughtering, slaying, violent death associated concepts:… …
2justifiable homicide — see homicide Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. justifiable homicide …
3justifiable homicide — n [U] law a situation in which you are not punished for killing someone, usually because you did it to defend yourself …
4justifiable homicide — noun count or uncount LEGAL a case in which killing someone is not a crime, for example because you were defending yourself …
5Justifiable homicide — The United States concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law stands on the dividing line between an excuse, justification and an exculpation. In other words, it takes a case that would otherwise have been a murder or another crime… …
6justifiable homicide — noun : a homicide (as by accident, by misadventure, in self defense, in performing a legal duty like quelling a mob or carrying out a death sentence, in preventing a felony involving great bodily harm, or in defense of one s home or members of… …
7justifiable — adj. that can be justified or defended. Phrases and idioms: justifiable homicide killing regarded as lawful and without criminal guilt, esp. the execution of a death sentence. Derivatives: justifiability n. justifiableness n. justifiably adv.… …
8justifiable homicide — n. killing that is considered to be lawful (such as if committed as self defense or as the only way to prevent a crime) …
9justifiable homicide — noun the killing of a person in circumstances which allow the act to be regarded in law as without criminal guilt …
10justifiable homicide — noun (U) law a situation in which you are not punished for killing someone, usually because you did it to defend yourself …
