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SOME MAIN ROOMS

PREMIUM ROOMS

MISC BUSHWAH

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MURDRUM

old Engl. law. During the times of the Danes, and afterwards till the reign of Edward III, murdrum was the killing of a man in a secret manner, and in that it differed from simple homicide.When a man was thus killed, and he was unknown, by the laws of Canute he was presumed to be a Dane, and the vill was compelled to pay forty marks for his death. After the conquest, a similar law was made in favor of Frenchmen, which was abolished by 3 Edw. III.By murdrum was also understood the fine formerly imposed in England upon a person who had committed homicide perinfortunium or se defendendo.

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