Burking
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.