Legal Term: INCENDIARY

Definition: crim. law. One who maliciously and wilfully sets another person s house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson. 2. This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states according to their several provisions. The civil law punished it with death, Dig. 47, 9, 12, 1, by the offender being cast into the fire. Id. 48, 19, 28, 12; Code, 9, 1, 11. Vide Dane s Ab. Index, h. t.

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