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Abortion

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In criminal law. The premature exclusion of the human foetus, after the period of quickening; which when procured or produced with a malicious design or for an unlawful purpose, is a criminal offence.

4 Steph. Com. 128. 1 Russell on Crimes, 671. 1 Chitt. Gen. Pr. 35. 2 N. Y. Rev. St. [661,] 550, § 9. Id. [694,] 578, § 21.

Statutes of Ohio, chap.

35, p. 252.