Definition
Janàyat.
H E D A T
B O O K XLIX.
Of J A N A Y A T ) or Offences againft the Person.
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of f A N A T A L , in the language o f the l aw , is a term expreffiveof
J . any prohibited aft committed either upon the perfon or property.
— in the pradtice of lawyers it fignifies that prohibited adt committed
upon the perfon *, which is called murder, or upon a part of the body,
w hich is termed wounding or maiming.
* Arab. Z at, fignifying the body connefled with the foul; in oppofition to Bad«,
which means Amply the material body. T h e tranflator renders it perfon or life , as belt
fuits the context. ' ' . _
C h a p . I. O F F E N C E S , See.
Chap. I. Introductory.
Chap. II. O f what occafions Retaliation.
Chap. jar? O f Retaliation in Matters Ihort of Life.
Chap. IV. O f .Evidence in Cafes of Murder.,
Chap. V. O f the Circumftances under which Murder takes place.
C H A P . I.
I. Katl-amd, or wilful murder; -II. Shàbbàh-amd*, or manflau^hter;
III. Katl-khota, or homicide by mifadventure ; IV. Katl-kàyem-mokàm-
ba-Khotà, or homicide o f the fame nature as that by mifadventure ;
and V. Katl-ba-Sibbab, or homicide by an intermediate caufe.
Ka t l -amd, or wilful murder, is where the perpetrator malici-
oufly kills a man with a weapon, or fomething that ferves for a weapon,
fuch as a club, a lharp ftone, or fire ; becaufe amd means intentionally,
or wilfully ; and as the intention is a thing concealed, which
we cannot difcover but by inference from fomething affording an argument
of it, and the ufe of an infrument o f murder does afford fuch
* T h is is a technical phrafe fignifying, literally, fi the femllance o f w ilfu l:” __the
tranflator exprefles it by the term manflaugbter, on the authority o f Sale, (fee his Introductory
Difçourie, f e â . V I . ) and alio, as being the moft analogous term in our
language.
Homicide
of five de
fcriptions
I. W i l f u l
murder }