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Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word AFORETHOUGHT
AFORETHOUGHT
Definitions of AFORETHOUGHT
- (postpositive) Premeditated; planned ahead of time.
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using AFORETHOUGHT in a Sentence
- The "crime of passion" defense challenges the mens rea element by suggesting that there was no malice aforethought, and instead the crime was committed in the "heat of passion".
- This makes them less morally culpable than if the act was premeditated (pre-planned) and done out of pure malice (malice aforethought).
- The other side of such an argument is likely to use a different stipulative definition for the same term: "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought" or "the premeditated killing of a human being".
- Malice aforethought is the "premeditation" or "predetermination" (with malice) required as an element of some crimes in some jurisdictions and a unique element for first-degree or aggravated murder in a few.
- The element of intentionality was originally termed malice aforethought, although it required neither malice nor premeditation.
- Although voluntary intoxication is not considered an excuse for a criminal act, if it can be shown that the defendant was too intoxicated to deliberate or premeditate the wrongful act, (lacking malice aforethought), a defense of diminished capacity, while not excusing the defendant from responsibility for the act, can serve to reduce the charges.
- On 28 June, Frederick Nodder was formally charged by a Superintendent Burkitt of having committed the murder with malice aforethought of Mona Lilian Tinsley.
- Smith, asked her if she had "willfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought" chloroformed and shot Rheta.
If any person, of malice aforethought, shall unlawfully castrate any other person, or cut off, maim or disfigure any of the privy members of any person, with intent to murder, maim, disfigure, disable or render impotent such person, the person so offending shall be punished as a Class C felon.
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