Provocation
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
The act of HS inciting another to do something. Provocation simply, unaccompanied by a crime or misdemeanor, does not justify the person provoked to e commit an assault and battery. In, _ cases of homicide, it may reduce the offence from murder to manslaughee ter.
Vide To persuade; 1 Russ. on Cr. 397, ch. 28, b.
2. ee PROVOST, is a title given to the chief of some corporations or ea societies. In France, this title was formerly given to some presiding judges. The word is derived from a the latin prepositus.