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  • Midwife

    A woman who assists at childbirth. Also a female obstetrician.

  • Abortion

    Abortion

    Abortion in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of abortion. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Abortion (You may find abortion at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Death

    Death in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of death.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading death in A Dictionary of Law […]

  • Surgery

    Surgery

  • Foeticide

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Foeticide Meaning of Foeticide In medical jurisprudence. The act of criminal abortion. 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Hallucination

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hallucination Meaning of Hallucination In medical jurisprudence , a trick of the senses, including a belief in the existence of something which has no objective existence. See Staples v Wellington, 58 Me. […]

  • Hallucination

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hallucination Meaning of Hallucination In medical jurisprudence , a trick of the senses, including a belief in the existence of something which has no objective existence. See Staples v Wellington, 58 Me. […]

  • Common Sense

    nounacumen astuteness balanced judgment calmness clear thinking composure experience experienced view good judgment good sense intelligence intuition judgment levelheaded…

  • Emmenagogues

    In medical jurisprudence. The name of a class of medicines which are believed to have the power of favoring the discharge of the menses. They are sometimes used for the criminal purpose of producing abortion (q. v.) 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 316; Dungl. Med. Diet.; Parr, Med. Diet.; 3 Paris & F, […]

  • Monomania

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Monomania Meaning of Monomania A partial insanity sometimes known as paranoia. The term refers to a craze or mania or insanity on a particular single subject or class of objects, with single delusion of […]

  • Monomania

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Monomania Meaning of Monomania A partial insanity sometimes known as paranoia. The term refers to a craze or mania or insanity on a particular single subject or class of objects, with single delusion of […]

  • Idiocy

    In medical jurisprudence. A form of insanity, resulting either from congenital defect, or some obstacle to the development of the faculties in infancy. It is an imbecility or sterility of mind, and not a perversion of the understanding. Chit. Med. Jur. 327, note (s) 345; 1 Russ. Crimes, […]

  • Idiocy

    In medical jurisprudence. A form of insanity, resulting either from congenital defect, or some obstacle to the development of the faculties in infancy. It is an imbecility or sterility of mind, and not a perversion of the understanding. Chit. Med. Jur. 327, note (s) 345; 1 Russ. Crimes, […]