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The Oxford English dictionary describes murder as:
murder, noun
1. The action or an act of killing. a. The deliberate and unlawful
killing of a human being, esp. in a premeditated manner; (Law) criminal
homicide with malice aforethought (occas. more fully wilful murder); an
instance of this.
murder, verb
2. a. trans. To kill (a person) unlawfully, spec. with malice
aforethought (in early use often with the additional notion of
concealment of the offence: to kill (a
person) wickedly, inhumanly, or barbarously.
English Law
The law of murder is set out in common law. The legal definition
of murder is 'the unlawful killing of a human being in the Queen's peace, with
malice aforethought'.
