per infortunium

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per infortunium - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PER INFORTUNIUM, criminal law. Homicide per infortunium, or by misadventure, 
  is said to take place when a man in doing a lawful act, without any intent 
  to hurt, unfortunately kills another. Hawk. bk. 1, c. 11; Foster, 258, 259; 
  3 Inst. 56.