Culpable homicide is a specific offence in various jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Nations

Commonwealth of Nations

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 which involves the illegal killing of a person either with or without an intention to kill depending upon how a particular jurisdiction has defined the offence. Unusually for those legal systems which have originated or been influenced during rule by England

England

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 or later by the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, the name of the offence associates with Scots Law

Scots law

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 rather than English Law

English law

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Culpable homicide offences are found in the following jurisdictions; the description of the local version of the offence is given where available:
The term is part of the Criminal Code of Canada

Criminal Code of Canada

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 (sec 222), where all killings of persons are classified as culpable or not culpable homicide.