The Homicide Law
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The Third Tetralogy
The legal rule(s) governing homicide repeatedly invoked by every speaker, including the prohibition on taking life, the principle that guilt rests on the party who acted from design (the aggressor), and the physician's legal immunity for a patient's death.
Thus the law rightly hands him over to you for punishment;
and we have proved that the law fixes the guilt of the murder upon him who gave that blow.
it lays down that the guilt of a murder shall rest upon that party which acted from design.
Against Aristocrates
Athenian rules governing homicide, trial, punishment, exile, pursuit, and lawful killing.
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