Justifiable Homicide definition:
The blameless killing of another human being.
Related Terms: Homicide, Self-Defence, Felonious Homicide, Excusable Homicide ...
Justifiable Homicide
It refers to the murder or death of the person or a heavy bodily harm which has happened or performed without any criminal intent.
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE - That which is committed with the intention to kill or to do a grievous bodily injury, under circumstances which the law holds sufficient to exculpate the person who commits it.
justifiable homicide
n. a killing without evil or criminal intent, for which there can be no blame, such as self-defense to protect oneself or to protect another or the shooting by a law enforcement officer in fulfilling his/her duties.
In the United States, a civilian may legally use deadly force when it is considered justifiable homicide, that is to say when the civilian feels their own life, or the lives of their family or those around them are in legitimate and imminent danger.
The legal sense of the term homicide excludes such injuries as are the result of either accident or of suicide. It embraces murder or wilful homicide, manslaughter or culpable homicide, casual homicide, and justifiable homicide.
 See also: Criminal, Officer, Office, Homicide, Civil
  
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