Chance-Medley is a now obsolete legal term which has been replaced by the term 'manslaughter'. It described a homicide which occurred either in self-defence, on a sudden quarrel, or in the commission of an unlawful act without any deliberate intention of doing mischief. Research Chance-Medley
Homicide is the legal term for the killing of one human being by another. Homicide may be justifiable, excusable or felonous (illegal). Justifiable homocide includes instances such as where the proper officer inflicts capital punishment, where an officer of justice kills an offender who assaults or resists him and who cannot otherwise be captured, or where persons are killed in the dispersion of rebellious or riotous assemblies. Excusable homicide is generally when it happens from misadventure, as where a person in doing a lawful act by accident kills another, or in self-defence, as where a person kills another in defence of the life of himself, his wife, children, parent, or others. Felonous homicide includes both murder and manslaughter, Research Homicide
Blood-money is the compensation by a homicide to the next of kin of the person slain, securing the offender and his relatives against subsequent retaliation; once common in Scandinavian and Teutonic countries, and still a custom among the Arabs. The term is also applied to money earned by laying or supporting a charge implying peril to the life of an accused person. Research Blood-Money
The cities of refuge were six out of the forty-eight cities given to the tribe of Levi in the division of Canaan, set apart by the law of Moses as places of refuge for the manslayer or accidentalhomicide. Their names were Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the west side of Jordan; and Bezer, Bamoth-Gilead, and Golan on the east. Research Cities of Refuge
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