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Chance-medley   /tʃæns-mˈɛdli/   Listen
Chance-medley

noun
1.
An unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defense.





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"Chance-medley" Quotes from Famous Books



... understand the transformation. He opened the door and went downstairs very slowly, thinking to himself. His past went soberly before him; he beheld it as it was, ugly and strenuous like a dream, random as chance-medley—a scene of defeat. Life, as he thus reviewed it, tempted him no longer; but on the further side he perceived a quiet haven for his bark. He paused in the passage, and looked into the shop, where the candle still ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Chance-medley" :   manslaughter, law, jurisprudence


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