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    Fatal offences can be defined as acts or omissions that are capable of causing death and are punishable by law. Some examples of fatal offences include murder, manslaughter, and corporate manslaughter. Murder is unlawfully killing another person under certain circumstances, while manslaughter is also unlawfully killing another but in a way that may not constitute murder. Laws like Sections 306, 310, and 315 of the criminal code further define and provide for unlawful killings and causing death through threats or intimidation. As human beings live within communities, laws are needed to regulate actions that could directly or indirectly harm others.

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    Fatal offences can be defined as acts or omissions that are capable of causing death and are punishable by law. Some examples of fatal offences include murder, manslaughter, and corporate manslaughter. Murder is unlawfully killing another person under certain circumstances, while manslaughter is also unlawfully killing another but in a way that may not constitute murder. Laws like Sections 306, 310, and 315 of the criminal code further define and provide for unlawful killings and causing death through threats or intimidation. As human beings live within communities, laws are needed to regulate actions that could directly or indirectly harm others.

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    Fatal offences can be defined as acts or omissions that are capable of causing death and are punishable by law. Some examples of fatal offences include murder, manslaughter, and corporate manslaughter. Murder is unlawfully killing another person under certain circumstances, while manslaughter is also unlawfully killing another but in a way that may not constitute murder. Laws like Sections 306, 310, and 315 of the criminal code further define and provide for unlawful killings and causing death through threats or intimidation. As human beings live within communities, laws are needed to regulate actions that could directly or indirectly harm others.

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    Fatal offences can be defined as acts or omissions that are capable of causing death and are punishable by law. Some examples of fatal offences include murder, manslaughter, and corporate manslaughter. Murder is unlawfully killing another person under certain circumstances, while manslaughter is also unlawfully killing another but in a way that may not constitute murder. Laws like Sections 306, 310, and 315 of the criminal code further define and provide for unlawful killings and causing death through threats or intimidation. As human beings live within communities, laws are needed to regulate actions that could directly or indirectly harm others.

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    OLANIYAN ONA-ARA OMOBOLANLE

    20L01040
    FATAL OFFENCES AS RELATED TO OFFENCES AGAINST A PERSON.

    For the sole reason that man is not just an individual, living alone in an unrestricted state of
    nature. Rather he is a human being living in a community with other humans where there’s
    bound to be quarrel, argument, offense, competition and fights because humans don’t behave
    or reason alike so one person’s actions might directly or indirectly cause injury to another.
    Which is why laws were created to regulate actions and also punish offenders in cases of
    disobedience and (or) non-compliance.
    Law is the pillar of any society, and above all, the machinery for regulating the conduct and
    activities of the individuals and institutions of the society, then criminal law is the principal
    law of crimes and it is the substantive law which prescribes what crime is, the type of act or
    omissions which the law prescribes or proscribes; as well as sanctions, punishment, penalty
    for violations.
    Section 2 of the criminal code provides and describes a crime as: an act or omission
    which renders the person doing the act or making the omission liable to punishment
    under this code or any act or law, is called an offence.1
    Fatal is an adjective that describes something that is capable of causing death, events
    having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin. An offence could be
    defined as a breach or violation of laws or a rule.2 By these definitions we can describe fatal
    offences as an act or omission, that is unfortunate, with dire consequences that is also capable
    of causing death and which renders the person doing the act or violating the law or making
    the omission liable to punishment under the prescribed law or code.
    These actions that are capable of causing harm or death and are against the law are listed
    below:
    1. Murder: in relations to the provision of section 316 of the criminal code, murder is
    defined as a person who unlawfully kills another under any of the following
    circumstances.
    2. Manslaughter : According to section 317 of the criminal code, a person who unlawfully
    kills another in such circumstances as to constitute murder is guilty of manslaughter.
    3. Corporate manslaughter.

    Section 306 of the criminal code provides for unlawful killing of any person unless such
    killing is authorized or justified or excused by law e.g death by hanging (prescribed in a
    sentence), self defence.3

    Section 310 of the criminal code provides for the causing of death by threats, it states that; A
    person who by threats or intimidation or by deceit, causes another person to do an act or
    make an omission which results in the death of that other person, is deemed to have killed
    him.4

    1
    Section 2 of criminal code cap 42 Laws of Federation (LFN) 1958/1990; Aoko v Fagbemi (1961) 1 All NLR 400
    2
    Oxford language dictionary .
    3
    Section 306 criminal code cap 42 .
    4
    Section 310 of criminal code .
    Section 315 of the criminal code provides for unlawful homicide saying any person who
    unlawfully kills another is guilty of an offence which is called murder or manslaughter,
    according to the circurmstances of the case.

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