 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...wife, and kills him direftly upon the fpot ; though this was allowed by the laws of Solon % as likewife by the Roman civil law, (if the adulterer was found in the hufband's own houfe b) and alfo among the antient Goths c ; yet in England it is not abfolutely ranked... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...the other, this 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;. • Stiern. iijwiGai.l.... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...the other, 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 of a forcible rape,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 540 pages
...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 kills him in the first transport of passion, he will be guilty of manslaughter only ; but if, after time for... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...the other, this 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...likewise by the Roman civil law, (if the adulterer ' 1 Hal. PC 466. i Kelyng. 135. "Stiernh. dejure Goth. 1.3. c.4. * Fost. 296. * 1 Hawk. PC c. 31. §... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...the other, 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...spot; though this was allowed "by the laws of Solon a, as likewise by the Roman civil law, (if the adulterer ' 1 Hal. PC 466. 1 Kclyng. 135. w Stiernh.... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...other, this is 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, as in the case of a forcible... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1826 - 942 pages
...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 kills him in the first transport of passion, he will be guilty of manslaughter only ; but if, after time for... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 788 pages
...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 wife, and kills him in the first transport of passion, he is only guilty of manslaughter, and that in the lowest degree... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 512 pages
...this is deliberate revenge, and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder.J If a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him in the first transport of passion, he will be guilty of manslaughter only. But if, after time for reflection,... | |
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