Infanticide

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticidium child murder;
     infans, -antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide.
     See {Infant}, and {Homicide}.]
     The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of
     a newly born or young child; child murder.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticida: cf. F.
     infanticide.]
     One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an
     infant.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infanticide
       n 1: a person who murders an infant
       2: murdering an infant

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INFANTICIDE, med. juris. The murder of a new born infant, Dalloz, Dict. 
  Homicide, Sec. 4; Code Penal, 300. There is a difference between this 
  offence and those known by the name of prolicide, (q.v.) and foeticide.
  (q.v.) 
       2. To commit infanticide the child must be wholly born; it is not. 
  Sufficient that it was born so far as the head and breathed, if it died 
  before it was wholly born. 5 Carr. & Payn. 329; 24 Eng. C. L. Rep. 344; S. 
  C. 6 Carr: & Payn. 349; S. C. 25 Eng. C. L. Rep. 433. 
       3. When this crime is to be proved from circumstances, it is proper to 
  consider whether the child had attained that size and maturity by which it 
  would have been enabled to maintain an independent existence; whether it was 
  born alive; and, if born alive, by what means it came to its death. 1 Beck's 
  Med. Jur. 331 to 428, where these several questions are learnedly 
  considered. See also 1 Briand, Med Leg. prem. part. c. 8 Cooper's Med. Jur. 
  h.t. Vide Ryan's Med. Jur. 137; Med. Jur. 145, 194; Dr. Cummin's Proof of 
  Infanticide considered Lecieux, Considerations Medico-legales sur 
  l'Infanticide; Duvergie, Medicine Legale, art. Infanticide.