Murder - Law Dictionary Search Results
lying in wait
concealed position to watch and wait for a victim for the purpose of making an unexpected attack and murdering or inflicting bodily injury on the victim
Regicide
One who kills or who murders a king specifically Eng Hist one of the judges who condemned Charles I to death
Bloodthirsty
Eager to shed blood cruel sanguinary murderous having a bloodlust
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a fortiori
scheme for violent habitual offenders - plainly suggests that the Legislature intended it to apply a fortiori, to murderers as well as to criminals who commit other violent, but less serious, felonies "People v. Jenkins, 893 P.2d
depraved
perversion as shown by a capacity for extreme and wanton physical cruelty [the state of mind of the murderer] [the nature of the crime]
fratricide
fratricide [Middle French, from Latin fratricida, from fratr- frater brother + -cida killing] 1 : one that murders or kills his or her own brother or sister or an individual (as a countryman) having a relationship
parricide
parricide [Latin parricida killer of a close relative] 1 : a person who murders his or her mother or father or sometimes a close relative 2 : the act of a parricide
wrongful death
willful, or wrongful act, neglect, omission, or default of another [sought damages for the wrongful death of their murdered daughter]
Bloodshedder
One who sheds blood a manslayer a murderer
Bluebeard
his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle She entered it and found the murdered bodies of his former wives Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate
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