MURDER, or MURTHER, the act of killing another with violence and injustice. The word comes from the Saxon morth, "death;" which some will have to signify a violent death; whence the barbarous Latin murdrum and modrum.
Among the number of popular errors, is the notion which has obtained, that the dead body would bleed in the presence or upon the touch of the murderer.
The crime of murder is punished with death in almost all nations.