The categories of homicide and their rules

This part gathers the questions of homicide as the four schools treat them: intentional killing, quasi-intentional killing, involuntary killing, the act assimilated to the involuntary, and killing by indirect cause. The jurists detail there the validity of the bequest made to the killer, the expiation and the blood money, the status of the child, the insane, the drunkard and the coerced person, the cases of detaining the victim and depriving her of food, the status of the false witnesses and of the biased judge, the man who kills the lover caught with his wife, the concrete forms of killing (strangling, poison, a fall from a height, drowning, fire, a wild beast, a blunt object), the exclusion from inheritance and from the bequest, the killing of a group for one person, the pardon of the heirs, and the equivalence between victim and killer.

Parts of this section

• The bequest made to the killer after the blow
• Coercion to kill
• Killing by indirect cause
• The father who kills his child