Premeditate
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
To think of an act in advance; to design, intend, or plan. It is used particularly of crimes, and especially of murder. It implies intent before the act, but not necessarily an intent existing any extended time before the act. See Aforethought; Murder. " Premeditated " implies an interval between the design and the commission of the act. Sullivan u.
People, 1 Park. Cr. 347.
The words premeditated design to effect death, in a statute defining murder in the first and second degrees, merely signify an intent to kill, and do not exclude a sudden intent. Hogan ».
State, 36 Wis. 226.