English Dictionary

culpable homicide

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see culpable, homicide.

日本語の意味

被告に非があると認められる殺人行為。つまり、“culpable”の意味である『責任がある』と、“homicide（殺人）』とを組み合わせた意味です。 / 法的な観点において、行為者に責任が問われる殺人（故意・過失など、行為の責任所在に注目した殺人行為）

He was charged with culpable homicide after the factory accident.

工場の事故の後、彼は非難されるべき殺人で起訴された。

意味（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see culpable, homicide.

a. Culpable homicide is called murder when you mean to cause someone to die.

意味（2）

Homicide which is culpable but does not rise to the level of murder; unlawful killing of a human being which does not constitute murder.

A charge of culpable homicide found relevant against both a shopkeeper and his servant, in respect that the former had culpably entrusted his servant with the charge of drugs which were sold in the shop, and the latter had culpably dispensed to a customer such an excessive dose of tartar emetic as to cause death. Henderson (High Court), 13 June 1842; 1 Broun 360.

culpable homicides （ plural ）