A metaphorical expression, used in connection with homicide done in self-defense, signifying the exhaustion of every possible means of escape, or of averting the assault, before killing the assailant … [Read more...]

Lat. Burning; raging; in actual perpetration. Flagrans helium. A war actually going on. Flagrans crimen. In Roman law. A fresh or recent crime. This term designated a crime in the very act of its commission, or while it was of recent occurrence. Flagrante hello. During an actual state of war. Flagrante delloto. In the very act of committing the crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 307. … [Read more...]

This, among the Romans, signified. that a crime was then or had just been committed for example, when a crime has just been committed and the corpus delictum is publicly exposed; or if a mob take place; or if a house be feloniously burned, these are severally flagrans cri men. 2. The term used in France is flagrant delit. The code of criminal instruction gives the following … [Read more...]

In French law. A crime which is in actual process of perpetration or which has just been committed. Code d'lnstr. Crim. art. 41. … [Read more...]

A case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act as an assault to remove a man from impending danger. … [Read more...]