...community opinion. Tapping Reeve, in reference to common-law precedent about adultery, conceded that "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 ... to avenge his own wrongs."...

...defined voluntary manslaughter as including particularly a killing under great provocation, such as where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife and kills him "directly upon the spot". The category of involuntary manslaughter Blackstone explained: as when a...

...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 law of Solon as likewise by the Roman civil...

...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 law of Solon as likewise by the Roman civil...

...cannot receive a higher provocation."" Blackstone solidified the law in the 17605: "if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot," it is the "lowest degree" of manslaughter. "Therefore in such a case," he...