Assassin
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
crim. law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place, or of a number of persons who support him, and kills him. This being done with malice aforethought is murder. The term assassin is but little used in the common law, it is borrowed from the civil law.