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Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that of manslaughter. <A state of mind contradistinguished from a cool state of the blood. State vy. Wieners, 66 Mo. 25; State v. Andrew, 76
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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