Legal Definition and Related Resources of Suicide

Self-slaughter; a self-slaughterer. At common law , suicide by a sane person was a felony and entailed forfeiture of his goods and chattels to the crown and burial of his body in the highway with a stake driven through the body, and without Christian rights of sepulchre. The intentional taking of one’s own life by a sane person. See Kent v New England Mut. Life Ins. Co., 277 N. Y.S.2d 788, 53 Misc.2d 82.

Self-destruction and suicide are synonymous and mean the voluntary destruction of one’s self. 29 111. App. 439. If a person who is incapable, by reason of unsoundness of mind, of resisting an insane impulse to take his own life, or to understand the general nature or consequences and effects of his act, kills himself, it is not suicide. 209 111. 33. At common law, suicide was a felony entailing forfeiture of estate. 1 Hale, P. C. c. 27. Since the abolition of forfeitures, punishment of suicide is, of course, impossible, but an attempt to commit suicide is indictable (9 Cox, C. C. 247) ; and one who persuades another to suicide is guilty of murder (4 Bl. Comm. 189; 123 Mass. 422), though, if he be not present at the commission of the suicide, it is held that he cannot be punished, because he is an accessory before the fact, and the prior conviction of the principal is impossible (9 Car. & P. 79).

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Suicide in Law Enforcement

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

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

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

Suicide

Hierarchical Display of Suicide

Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Social problem
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Demography > Mortality
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Rights of the individual > Freedom of self-determination > Euthanasia
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Rights of the individual > Freedom of self-determination
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Social life > Death

Meaning of Suicide

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Translation of Suicide

• Spanish: Suicidio
• French: Suicide
• German: Freitod
• Italian: Suicidio
• Portuguese: Suicídio
• Polish: Samobójstwo

Thesaurus of Suicide

Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Social problem > Suicide
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Demography > Mortality > Suicide
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Rights of the individual > Freedom of self-determination > Euthanasia > Suicide
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Rights of the individual > Freedom of self-determination > Suicide
Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Social life > Death > Suicide

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• Mortality
• Infant mortality
• Occupational mortality
• Euthanasia
• Freedom of self-determination
• Euthanasia
• Death