Legal Definitions - patricide

Patricide is the act of a person killing their own father. The term also refers to the individual who commits this act.

Patricide refers to the act of a person killing their own father. It can also refer to the individual who commits such an act.

Here are some examples illustrating the concept of patricide:

• Imagine a scenario where a grown son, after years of resentment over his father's abandonment, meticulously plans and executes his father's murder. In this case, the son's actions would be classified as patricide, and the son himself would be considered a patricide.

• Consider an adult daughter who, motivated by a desire to inherit her wealthy father's estate and gain control of his company, hires someone to kill him. Even though she did not commit the act directly, her orchestration of her father's death makes her guilty of patricide.

• In a tragic domestic dispute, a young man, during a heated argument, fatally assaults his biological father. The act of the son killing his father in this manner is an instance of patricide.