LEGAL WORD
Culpable homicide
Legal term · Criminal law
Culpable homicide
- Type: Legal term
- Area of law: Criminal law
1 What it means
Causing death with the intention or knowledge described in the BNS. Every murder is culpable homicide, but not every culpable homicide is murder.
2 Use it in a sentence
Death in a sudden fight without premeditation may be culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
3 Make it stick
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