| William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 Seiten
...is deliberate revenge and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder 2. So if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the fpot ; though thrs was allowed by the laws of • i Hal. P. 0.466. i KelynE. 13;.... | |
| John M'Arthur - 1805 - 494 Seiten
...tranfport of paffion . y where the injury is irreparable and can never be compenfated. This is where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife ; in which cafe, if he kill him in the firft tranfport of paffion, he is only guilty of manflaughter,... | |
| Henry Potter - 1816 - 474 Seiten
...this is deliberate revenge and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder. So if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot, it is not absolutely .ranked in the class of justifiable ho:nicide, as in case... | |
| Tapping Reeve - 1816 - 518 Seiten
...the ravisher, in defence of her chastity: so may her husband; and it is justifiable homicide. Where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, which is the greatest possible injury, yet the husband is not justified if he kill him ; for, in this... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 540 Seiten
...the law allows an excuse for the feelings excited by an [#732] atrocious injury. Thus if a man find another in the act of adultery with his wife, and...guilty of manslaughter only ; but if, after time for reflexion, he returns and takes his revenge, the law will regard it as murder. For no man in a civilized... | |
| William Hough - 1825 - 1028 Seiten
...deliberate revenge and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder" (387). " So if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot, in England it is not absolutely ranked in the class of justifiable homicide,... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 Seiten
...is deliberate revenge and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder *. So if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot; though this was allowed "by the laws of Solon a, as likewise by the Roman civil... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 Seiten
...is deliberate revenge and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder z. So if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot ; though this was allowed by the laws of Solon", as likewise by the Roman civil... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1826 - 942 Seiten
...the law allows an excuse for the feelings excited by [ 732 ] an atrocious injury. Thus if a man find another in the act of adultery with his wife, and...a right to visit personal injuries with vengeance; he is bound to appeal to the laws for redress; and it is on this subjugation of the natural passions... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - 1826 - 788 Seiten
...articles of war should have been produced ; and, for want thereof, held the conviction wrong, (f) Where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his...and kills him in the first transport of passion, he is only guilty of manslaughter, and that in the lowest degree : (м) for the provocation is grievous,... | |
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