Suicide
The Legal History of Suicide in Chinese Law
This section provides an overview of Suicide in Chinese Law
A Thwarted Suicide: International Incident
In the book “International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes”, in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: While the Frau Elizabeth, a German tramp steamer, is on the high seas during a voyage between New York and Hamburg, a sailor, Heinrich Kalke, jumps overboard with the intention of drowning himself. Another sailor leaps into the sea after him in the hope of saving Kalke’s life. He succeeds in getting hold of the man, but Kalke struggles and, being unable to free himself, draws a knife and stabs the sailor, who thereupon sinks. While the struggle is in progress the vessel slackens speed, a boat is lowered, and its occupants succeed in securing Kalke. He is taken on board, conveyed to Hamburg, and there put on his trial for murder. Counsel for defence asserts that Germany does not possess jurisdiction, as the act was committed, not on a vessel sailing under the German flag, but in the sea itself, and as, according to § 4, No. 3 of the German criminal code, a German can only be punished in Germany for an act committed abroad, if the act concerned is punishable both by the law of Germany and by that of the country where the act was committed.
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See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Suicide in Chinese Law in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Suicide in Chinese Law in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
Hierarchical Display of Suicide
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Suicide
Concept of Suicide
See the dictionary definition of Suicide.
Characteristics of Suicide
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Translation of Suicide
- Spanish: Suicidio
- French: Suicide
- German: Freitod
- Italian: Suicidio
- Portuguese: Suicídio
- Polish: Samobójstwo
Thesaurus of Suicide
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