Se Defendendo

(Law) in self-defense (e.g.: "He committed the murder se defendendo")

criminal law. Defending himself.

Homicide, se defendendo, is that which takes place upon a sudden encounter, where two persons upon a sudden quarrel, without premeditation or malice, fight upon equal terms, and one, before a mortal stroke has been given, declines any further combat, and retreats as far as he can with safety, and kills his adversary, through necessity, to avoid immediate death.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

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