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ASSASSIN

ASSASSIN, crim, law. An assassin is one who attacks another either traitorously, or with the advantage of arms or place) or of a number ofpersons who support him, and kills his victim. This being done with malice,aforethought, is murder. The term assassin is but little used in the commonlaw, it is borrowed from the civil law.

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