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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.