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Meanings of justifiable homicide in English

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Usage of justifiable homicide in English
1
Under such provocation does not murder assume the guise of justifiable homicide?
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
2
Last month an investigation ruled that the shooting was justifiable homicide.
The Guardian
3
Perhaps he can make it out a case of ' justifiable homicide'-hopehe can.
Winter Evening Tales
4
I'm not a fanatic: there is justifiable homicide, so why not justifiable facticide?
Put Yourself in His Place
5
Three card monte and justifiable homicide go hand in hand.
Remarks
6
Though I don't even admit myself, indeed, it was anything more than justifiable homicide.
What's Bred in the Bone
7
Had they committed mutiny and murder, or only justifiable homicide?
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
8
O my boy, his provocation to justifiable homicide and all that sort of thing!
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
9
The terms of justifiable homicide flashed through his head.
Diagnosis: danger
10
It's a clear case of justifiable homicide.
Pasta Imperfect
11
If you kill for cows, it is justifiable homicide; if you kill for women, it is murder.
Finished
12
The authorities ruled it was justifiable homicide.
King Rat
13
But that would have been justifiable homicide.
The Story of a Play / A Novel
14
We call murder of which we approve "capital punishment" or " justifiable homicide" or "patriotic courage."
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
15
Because," said Mr. Humphreys, softly, "I mightn't be able to refrain from committing justifiable homicide.
The Purple Heights
16
An obvious case of justifiable homicide.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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