Casting Vote

legislation, is the vote given by the president, or speaker of a deliberative assembly, when the votes of the other members are equal on both sides, the casting vote then decides the question. act of maliciously depriving a man of one or both his testes; though it usually indicates the deprivation of both. This is a maihem, and punishable as such, though the patients consented to it. By the ancient law of England this crime was punished by retaliation, membrum pro membro, 3 Inst. 118. It is punished in the United States generally by fine and imprisonment. The civil law punished it with death.

Dig. 48, 8, 4, 2. -For the French law, vide Code Penal, art. 316.

The consequence of castration, when both testes have been removed are impotence and sterility.

1 Beck’s Med. Jur. 72.