Murder: Difference between revisions

According to Blackstone, English [[common law]] identified murder as a ''public wrong''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/blackstone/bk4ch14.htm |title=Blackstone, Book 4, Chapter 14 |publisher=Yale.edu |access-date=2010-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203082805/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/blackstone/bk4ch14.htm |archive-date=2010-12-03 }}</ref> According to common law, murder is considered to be ''[[malum in se]]'', that is, an act which is evil withinonly itselfagainst certain people. An act such as murder is wrong or evil by its very nature, and it is the very nature of the act which does not require any specific detailing or definition in the law to consider murder a crime.<ref>A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage By Bryan A. Garner, p. 545.</ref>