Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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even before the conquest deliberately planned assassinations came to be distinguished and put into the list of crown pleas as forsteal. The original sense of this word was lying in wait to ambush the victim. After the conquest this is expressed in various terms in french and latin, but frequently takes the form of assault purpense, or assultus premeditatus. In time this yields before malitia excogitata, and so introduces us to the very troublesome word malice'." theodore f.t. plucknett, a concise history of the common law 444 (5th ed. 1956).