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Definition of Aforethought
1. Adjective. Planned in advance. "With malice aforethought"
Definition of Aforethought
1. a. Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.
2. n. Premeditation.
Definition of Aforethought
1. Adjective. Premeditated; planned ahead of time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aforethought
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aforethought
Literary usage of Aforethought
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The terms "malice aforethought" and "premeditation," as used In an Indictment
for murder in the first degree, are synonymous. Cannon v. State, 32 SW 128, ..."
2. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"Murder at common law is unlawful homicide with malice aforethought** MALICE
aforethought 71. Malice aforethought may exist whether the act is premeditated, ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"The phrase "malice aforethought" means a predetermination to do the act of killing
... 'Malice aforethought' means In law that it has been thought of ..."
4. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"Murder at common law is unlawful homicide with malice aforethought." MALICE
aforethought 71. Malice aforethought may exist whether the act is premeditated, ..."
5. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1915)
"Malice aforethought.—The name of murder was anciently applied only to the secret
killing of another. Murder became, in time, the name of all the worst kinds ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty, Richard Peters (1819)
"... and of his malice aforethought, did strike, thrust, stab, and penetrate, giving
unto the said SC then and there, with the sword drawn as aforesaid, ..."
7. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"Malice aforethought must be absent.—The thing which characterizes and determines
the nature of a homicide is the quo animo, or state of mind, ..."
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