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Murder

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

The killing of one human being by another, with malice aforethought, express or implied. Murder, murdered: necessary words in indictments for murder, as murdrum and murdravit were anciently.

In old English law

The secret killing of one human being by another; the homicide of a Norman as distinguished from that of an Englishman, v. Englecery; Murdrum.