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

Black's Law Dictionary

In criminal law. A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, but in strictness it is applicable to such killing only as happens in defending one's self.

4 Bl. Comm. 184.