Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The premeditated and deliberate commission of a criminal act with knowledge of its harmfulness or reckless indifference to its harmfulness and without justification or excuse.
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- noun law The criminal
intent which precedes acrime , especiallymurder .
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- noun (law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal); often at issue in murder trials
Etymologies
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Translating Anglo-Norman malice prepensé.
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