Culpable homicide
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Culpable homicide is a specific offence in various jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Nations which involves the illegal killing of a person either with or without an intention to kill depending upon how a particular jurisdiction has defined the offence. Unusually for those legal systems which have originated or been influenced during rule by England or later by the United Kingdom, the name of the offence associates with Scots Law rather than English Law. Culpable homicide is usually 'killing someone for a reason'. i.e. because someone has done something or tried to do something, another person killed him/her.
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See also
- Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
- Criminal Code of Canada
- Homicide
- Manslaughter
- Murder
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