culpable homicide - meaning and definition. What is culpable homicide
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What (who) is culpable homicide - definition

ILLEGAL HOMICIDE EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT INTENT, DEPENDING ON JURISDICTION
Negligent killing; Negligence causing death; Responsible for killing; Responsibility of homicide; Culpable homicide not amounting to murder

culpable homicide         
¦ noun Law (in some jurisdictions) an act which has resulted in a person's death but is held not to amount to murder.
Culpable homicide         
Culpable homicide is a categorisation of certain offences 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 the United Kingdom, the name of the offence associates with Scots law rather than English law.
Culpable homicide (Canadian law)         
MURDER IN CANADIAN LAW
Murder in Canada; Canadian law for murder; Murder under Canadian law; Murder (Canadian law); Culpable homicide (Canadian law)
In Canada, culpable homicide is a category of offences defined in the Criminal Code, a statute passed by the Parliament of Canada that applies uniformly across the country. Murder is the most serious category of culpable homicide, the others being manslaughter and infanticide.

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Culpable homicide

Culpable homicide is a categorisation of certain offences 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 the United Kingdom, the name of the offence associates with Scots law rather than English law.

Examples of use of culpable homicide
1. He was convicted for negligence not amounting to culpable homicide.
2. Cooper, of Brighton, denied culpable homicide and violating South Africa‘s National Forestry Act.
3. They were held repsonsible under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
4. Anthony Cooper, a 36–year–old salesman from Brighton, faces charges of arson and culpable homicide.
5. Initially, Transco had been charged with culpable homicide, the first company to face such a sanction in Scotland.