Legal Definition and Related Resources of Homicide

The intentional killing of a human being. See commonwealth v Biron, 4 U.S. 125, I L.Ed. 769. See murder , manslaughter .

Homicide is any killing of a human being. To constitute homicide, (1) the killing must be of a living human being; (2) the death must have been caused by the act or omission of the accused; (3) death must happen within a year and a day after the injury. Homicide is either (1) justifiable; (2) excusable; or (3) felonious. Felonious homicide is either murder or manslaughter. 1 Clark & Marshall, Crimes, 466. See “Murder”; “Manslaughter.”

noun

• annihilation
• assassination
• butchery
• caedes
• capital crime
• capital murder
• carnage
• crime
• destruction of life
• elimination
• extermination
• felony
• felony murder
• killing
• liquidation
• manslaughter
• massacre
• murder
• removal
• slaughter
• slaying
• termination of life
• violent death
• Associated Concepts: assault with intent to murder
• corpus delicti
• criminally negligent homicide
• culpable homicide
• excusable homicide
• felonious homicide
• felony murder
• infanticide
• involuntary manslaughter
• justifiable homicide
• manslaughter
• premeditated homicide
• voluntary homicideforeign phrases: Maihemium est homicidium inchoatum
• Mayhem is unfinished homicide

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Dying Declaration, Homicidal, Implied Malice, Mag-bot, Malice, Malice Aforethought, Manslaughter, Mutual Combat, True Man Doctrine.

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• Homicidio
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Homicide in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of homicide.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• homicide in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• homicide in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

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Law > Criminal law > Offence > Crime against individuals

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Translation of Homicide

• Spanish: Homicidio
• French: Homicide
• German: Tötung
• Italian: Omicidio
• Portuguese: Homicídio
• Polish: Zabójstwo

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