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Flagrans

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. Burning; raging; in actual perpetration.

— Flagrans hellnm. A war actually going on.

— Flagrans crimen. In Roman law. A fresh or recent crime. This term designated a crime in the very act of its commission, or while it was of recent occurrence

— Flagrante hello. During an actual state of war.

— Flagrante delicto. In the very act of committing the crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 307.