Homicide

Homicide in United Kingdom

Offences related to homicide

This section offers a description about Offences related to homicide in the study of crimes in the English law.

Definition of Year And A Day Rule

For a defendant to be liable for a homicide offence, the victim had to die within 366 days of the last act (or omission) done to the victim.

Chance-Medley

Chance-Medley (from the A.-Fr. chance-medlée, a mixed chance, and not from chaude-medlée, a hot affray), an accident of a mixed character, an old term in English law for a form of homicide arising out of a sudden affray or quarrel. The homicide has not the characteristic of “malice prepense” which would raise the death to murder, nor the completely accidental nature which would reduce it to homicide by misadventure. It was practically identical, therefore, with manslaughter.(1)

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Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia Britannica (11th Edition)

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