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.