What is the meaning of the Latin phrase "felo-de-se"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 2007] Reference

A full account of Wakley's parliamentary ratting, or political felo-de-se; beautifully authenticated by his late Finsbury electors -- with sundry cuts by his former friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference

Manslaughter, arson, and the more practical jokes in the Calendar, were already familiar to the stage; it was a refinement of the Haymarket authors to introduce those livelier sallies of wit -- crim.con. and felo-de-se.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841] Reference

He was cut down before life was extinct, and on recovery was prosecuted for felo-de-se.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

"'Tis tempting 'em to commit felo-de-se upon us, and that would be the death of the perpetrator; and we wouldn't be the cause of a fellow-creature's death on no account, not we!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

The doctrine of attainder has, however, ceased to be of much practical importance since 33 and 34 Vict., c. 23, wherein it was provided that henceforth no confession, verdict, inquest, conviction, or judgment of or for any treason or felony, or felo-de-se shall cause any attainder or corruption of blood or any forfeiture or escheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Side by side are fallen down & dead felo-de-se.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 44] Reference

'em to commit felo-de-se upon us, and that would be the death of the perpetrator; and we wouldn't be the cause of a fellow-creature's death on no account, not we! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

Surprised at the felo-de-se and all that.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Last I Died]

A fishing-party -- whose dulness is relieved by a suicide -- opens the last act: one of the anglers having finished a comic song -- which from its extreme gravity forms an appropriate dirge to the forthcoming felo-de-se -- goes off with his companion to leave the water clear for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference