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Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect from the execution of the contract. Cf. ex nunc. Ex turpi causa non oritur actio: ex nunc: from now on Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect only in the future and not prior to the contract, or its adjudication. Cf. ex ...
Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed. Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. Homicide – the act of killing of a person (Latin: homo "man"). Justifiable homicide – a defense to culpable homicide (criminal or negligent homicide).
Pages in category "Latin legal terminology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 315 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Henry Chau Hoi-leung killed and dismembered his parents in 2013. Robert and Michael Bever killed their parents and 3 siblings in 2015. Joel Michael Guy Jr. killed and dismembered both of his parents on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2016. A 21 year old Turkish man in Bayraklı, İzmir who was studying chemistry, killed his parents by making ...
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia ('son' and 'daughter') and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'. The word can refer to both the crime and perpetrator of the crime.
Barreda killed his wife, mother-in-law and two daughters. Jean-Claude Romand, January 9–10, 1993, Prévessin-Moëns, France. Romand killed his wife, two children, his parents and their dog, and attempted to kill his ex-mistress. Bain family murders, June 20, 1994, Dunedin. Five members of the Bain family were shot to death, either by Robin ...
Felo de se (from Medieval Latin fel[l]ō dē sē, "felon of him-/herself") was a concept applied against the personal estates (assets) of adults who ended their own lives. [1] Early English common law , among others, by this concept considered suicide a crime—a person found guilty of it, though dead, would ordinarily see penalties including ...
In Mutual Life v.Armstrong (1886), the first American case to consider the issue of whether a slayer could profit from their crime, the US Supreme Court set forth the No Profit theory (the term "No Profit" was coined by legal scholar Adam D. Hansen in an effort to distinguish early common law cases that applied a similar outcome when dealing with slayers), [1] a public policy justification of ...