Homicide Law - Definitions Flashcards
What is the definition of ‘homicide’?
Section 158, CA61:
Homicide is the killing of a human being by another, directly or indirectly, by any means whatsoever.
Homicide must be culpable to be an offence.
What is the definition of ‘unlawful act’?
Means a breach of any Act, regulation, rule, or bylaw.
What is the definition of ‘wilfully frightening’?
Intending to frighten, or at least be reckless as to this.
What is the definition of ‘intent’?
There are two specific types of intention – an intention to commit the act and an intention to get a specific result. Intent means the act or omission must be done deliberately. The act or omission must be more than involuntary or accidental.
What is the definition of ‘reckless’?
Involves consciously and deliberately taking an unjustifiable risk.
What is the definition of a ‘vulnerable adult’?
A person unable, by reason of detention, age, sickness, mental impairment, or any other cause, to withdraw himself or herself from the care or charge of another person.
Vulnerability may be short-lived or temporary.
What is the definition of ‘necessaries’?
Encompasses commodities and services necessary to sustain life, such as food, clothing, housing, warmth and medical care.
What is the definition of ‘injury’?
Not only bodily harm directly caused by other persons but also harm arising from human activities and non-human sources.
What is the definition of ‘novus acus interviens’?
An intervening act that breaks the chain of causation.
What is the definition of a ‘suicide pact’?
A common agreement between 2 or more persons having for its object the death of all of them, whether or not each is to take his own life
