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provocation English criminal law words or conduct that incite a person to attack another How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A TURBULENT Person was brought before a Judge to be tried for an assault with intent to commit murder, and it was proved that he had been variously obstreperous without apparent provocation, had affected the peripheries of several luckless fellow-citizens with the trunk of a small tree, and subsequently cleaned out the town. The other phase of the death-road was that of the habitual drunkards, who had a way of turning up their toes without apparent provocation. Ignorant of the provocation which had produced this unforgiving temper of mind, Miss Ladd gently remonstrated. |
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