Blood guilt or Bloodguilt may refer to:
*any unlawful killing, see
manslaughter
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th ce ...
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murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse committed with the necessary Intention (criminal law), intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisd ...
*any crime severe enough to be punished by the
death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...
**crimes falling under
high justice in feudal Europe
See also
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Kin punishment, a form of collective punishment against the family members of one accused of committing a crime
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Weregild
Weregild (also spelled wergild, wergeld (in archaic/historical usage of English), weregeld, etc.), also known as man price ( blood money), was a precept in some historical legal codes whereby a monetary value was established for a person's life, ...
(blood money), paid in atonement for blood guilt
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Blood court (''Blutgericht''), legal term for "high justice" in the Holy Roman Empire
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Homicide
Homicide is an act in which a person causes the death of another person. A homicide requires only a Volition (psychology), volitional act, or an omission, that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from Accident, accidenta ...
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Bloodguilt in the Hebrew Bible
Thou shalt not kill (LXX, KJV; ), You shall not murder (New International Version, NIV, ) or Do not murder (Christian Standard Bible, CSB), is a moral imperative included as one of the Ten Commandments in the Torah.
The imperative not to kill i ...
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