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Definition of Manslaughters

1. manslaughter [n] - See also: manslaughter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Manslaughters

Literary usage of Manslaughters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England: With a Treatise on the Popular by John Forster (1846)
"... whereby manslaughters, riots, batteries, and divisions among the gentlemen and other people of the same counties shall very likely rise and be, ..."

2. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1995 edited by Kathleen Maguire (1996)
"... 3.127 Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters known to police, by victim-offender relationship and circumstances of the offense, United States, ..."

3. A Digest of the Criminal Statute Law of England: Alphabetically and by Harold Nuttall Tomlins (1819)
"Murders and manslaughters committed in Places not within his Majesties Dominions. The Statute 57 G. 3. c. 53. intituled " an Act for the more effectual ..."

4. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"Murd'.rs and manslaughters committed in certain foreign l>arts, may be tried in any of his majesty's foreign plantations, in game manner as offences ..."

5. Reports of State Trials: New Seriesby Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1894)
"And it extends to: " All murders and manslaughters committed or that shall ... 7, extends to murders and manslaughters committed on hind out of the King's ..."

6. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1917)
"The Chicago Tribune gives the number of homicides (including manslaughters) in the United States in 1912 as 9152; the number of executions in 1912 as 145; ..."

7. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"... for the more effectual Punishment of Murders, manslaughters, Rapes, Robberies, and Burglaries committed in Places not within his Majesty's Dominions, ..."

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