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The Oxford English dictionary describes murder as:

murder, noun

1. The action or an act of killing. a. The deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being, esp. in a premeditated manner; (Law) criminal homicide with malice aforethought (occas. more fully wilful murder); an instance of this.

murder, verb

2. a. trans. To kill (a person) unlawfully, spec. with malice aforethought (in early use often with the additional notion of concealment of the offence: to kill (a person) wickedly, inhumanly, or barbarously.

English Law

The law of murder is set out in common law. The legal definition of murder is 'the unlawful killing of a human being in the Queen's peace, with malice aforethought'.