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Patricide

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

One guilty of killing his father. See "Parricide."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One who kills his father; the act of so doing.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

One guilty of killing his father. See Parricide.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One who has killed hls father. As to the punishment of that offense by the Roman law, sce Sandars' Just Inst. (5th Ed.) 496.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Homicide. ' Hadley, Roman Law, 107, 119. ^Hadley, Roman Law, 119-122, 1.30, 140, See also Maine, Ancient Law, 130-141; 1 Bl. Com. 452, 444; Macksldey, Rom. Law, § 589.