Burking
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or BURKISM. Committing murder in order to sell the body for dissec- BURLAW (BYRLAW, or BIRLAW) courts. In Scotch law. ^ Assemblages of neighbors to elect burlaw men, or those who were to act as rustic judges in determining disputes in their neighborhood. Skene de Verb. Sign.; Bell, Diet.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Murdering for the purpose of procui-ing a body to sell for dissection.