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- Dictionarymanslaughter/ˈmanˌslɔːtə/
noun
- 1. the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or in circumstances not amounting to murder: "the defendant was convicted of manslaughter"
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Crime of killing of a human being by another human being, less serious than murder
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th century BC. Wikipedia