Cooling Time
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In criminal law. Time for passion to subside and reason to interpose. Cooling time destroys the effect of provocation, leaving homicide murder, the same as if no provocation had been given.
1 Russ. Crimes, 525; Whart. Hom. 179; 3 Grat. (Va.) 594.