Meaning of culpable homicide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see culpable, homicide.
   countable, uncountable
2. Homicide which is culpable but does not rise to the level of murder; unlawful killing of a human being which does not constitute murder.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“a. Culpable homicide is called murder⟳ when you mean⟳ to cause someone to die⟳.”

“Culpable homicide is not murder⟳ if the offender, while deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes the death of the person who gave the provocation […]”

“Section 300 defines murder⟳, which is also a culpable homicide with some special characteristics, […]”

“A charge of culpable homicide found relevant against both a shopkeeper and his servant, in respect⟳ that the former had culpably entrusted his servant with the charge of drugs which were sold in the shop⟳, and the latter had culpably dispensed to a customer such an excessive dose of tartar emetic as to cause death. Henderson (High Court), 13 June 1842; 1 Broun 360.”

“But it may amount to culpable homicide to cause the death of a living child, if any part of that child has been brought forth, though the child may not have⟳ breathed or been completely born.”

“The distinction between murder⟳ and culpable homicide not amounting to murder⟳ is fine but appreciable.”

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