Excusable Homicide
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
crim. lato, is the killing of a human being, when the party killing is not altogether free from blame, but the necessity which renders it excusable, may be said to be partly induced by his own act.
1 East, P. C. 220.