lawful killing
1killing by misadventure — Accidental killing of a person where the slayer is doing a lawful act, unaccompanied by any criminal carelessness or reckless conduct. Excusable homicide occurring where one engaged in doing lawful act, without intention to do harm and, with… …
2killing by misadventure — Accidental killing of a person where the slayer is doing a lawful act, unaccompanied by any criminal carelessness or reckless conduct. Excusable homicide occurring where one engaged in doing lawful act, without intention to do harm and, with… …
3killing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of one that kills Nouns 1. killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, murder most foul; bloodshed, bloodletting, slaughter, carnage, butchery, extermination, decimation, annihilation,… …
4killing no murder — Quot. 1657 is the title of a pamphlet asserting that the assassination of Cromwell, the Protector, would be lawful and laudable. 1657 SEXBY & TITUS (title) Killing noe murder. 1800 M. EDGEWORTH Castle Rackrent p. xliv. In Ireland, not only… …
5unlawful killing — unˌlawful ˈkilling 7 [unlawful killing] noun (law) a murder or other killing which is considered a crime, for example when a person dies because sb is careless • The two police officers were accused of unlawful killing …
6accidental killing — A death caused by a lawful act done under the reasonable belief that no harm was likely to result. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. accidental killing A death caused by a l …
7Extra-judicial killing — For extrajudicial executions see also Assassination Extra judicial killings are the illegal killing of leading political, trades union, dissidents, and social figures by either the state government, state authorities like the armed forces and… …
8Unlawful killing — In English law unlawful killing is a verdict that can be returned by an inquest in England and Wales. The verdict means that a death was caused by another person, without lawful excuse and in breach of the criminal law, in other words homicide.… …
9accidental killing — One resulting from an act which is lawful and lawfully done under a reasonable belief that no harm is possible; distinguished from involuntary manslaughter, which is the result of an unlawful act, or of a lawful act done in an unlawful way …
10accidental killing — One resulting from an act which is lawful and lawfully done under a reasonable belief that no harm is possible; distinguished from involuntary manslaughter, which is the result of an unlawful act, or of a lawful act done in an unlawful way …
