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PARRICIDE, civil law. One who murders his father; it is applied, by extension, to one who murders his mother, his brother, his sister, or his children. The crime committed by such person is also called parricide. Merl. Rep. mot Parricide; Dig. 48, 9, 1, 1. 3, 1. 4.
     2. This offence is defined almost in the same words in the penal code of China. Penal Laws of China, B. 1, s. 2, Sec. 4.
     3. The criminal was punished by being scourged, and afterwards sewed in a sort of sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea, or into a river; or if there were no water, he was thrown in this manner to wild beasts. Dig. 48, 9, 9; C. 9, 17, 1, 1. 4, 18, 6; Bro. Civ; Law, 423; Wood's Civ. Law, B. 3, c. 10, s. 9.
     4. By the laws of France parricide is the crime of him who murders his father or mother, whether they, be the legitimate, natural or adopted parents of the individual, or the murder of any other legitimate ascendant. Code Penal, art. 297. This crime is there punished by the criminal's being taken to the place of execution without any other garment than his shirt, barefooted, and with his head covered with a black veil. He is then exposed on the scaffold while an officer of the court reads his sentence to the spectators; his right hand is then cut off, and he is immediately put to death. Id. art. 13.
     5. The common law does not define this crime, and makes no difference between its punishment, and the punishment of murder. 1 Hale's P. C. 380; Prin. Penal Law, c. 18, Sec. 8, p. 243; Dalloz, Dict. mot Homicide.

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This meant discarding considerations of textual fidelity in favor or creating "a parricidal dis-memory" (42).

Two new adaptation studies journals by Raw, Laurence / Literature-Film Quarterly

The novels, she says, work sequentially through the four primary relationships between parent and child, the first and fourth being parricidal and the central pair being desiring.

Dickens, family, authorship; psychoanalytic perspectives on kinship ... by Reference & Research Book News

Rather than the parricidal impulse that Russ Castronovo detects in the antebellum American genealogical imaginary, Collins organizes her novel around a symbolic filicide to insist that the "metaphoric continuity of the nation" can only be sustained through a collective remembrance and acknowledgement of the long silenced slave mother (Castronovo 3).

"Neither is memory always thus avenging": longing for kinship in ... by Wong, Edlie / African American Review

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