REASONABLE
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
REASONABLE. Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual. —Reasonable act. Such as may fairly, justly, and reasonably be required of a party.—Reasonable and probable cause. Such grounds as justify any one in suspecting another of a crime, and giving him in custody thereon. It is a defense to an action for false imprisonment. —Reasonable creature. Under the commonlaw rule that murder is taking the life of a “reasonable creature” under the king’s peace, with malice aforethought, the phrase means a human being, and has no reference to his mental condition, as it includes a lunatic, an idiot, and even an unborn child. See State v. Jon
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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