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Criminal law
review ch.9
Term | Definition |
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feticide | the crime of killing a fetus |
murder | killing a person with "malice aforethought" |
manslaughter | killing a person without malice aforethought |
justifiable homicide | killing in self-defense |
excusable homicide | killings done by someone "not of sound memory and discretion" |
criminal homicide | all homicides that are neither justified nor excused |
depraved heart murder | extremely reckless killings |
felony murder rule | unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies are murder |
unlawful act or misdemeanor manslaughter | |
euthanasia | helping another person to die |
presumption of bodily integrity | a state can't exercise power over individual members of society except to prevent harm to others |
paramour rule | the common law rule that a husband who caught his wife in the act of adultery had adequate provocation to kill; today, it applies to both parties of a marriage |