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One particularly interesting pair of legal doublets are the old forms of a murder and manslaughter indictment, used in England until 1915. For murder: That [t
by Ichthypresbyter 5y ago
One particularly interesting pair of legal doublets are the old forms of a murder and manslaughter indictment, used in England until 1915.
For murder:
That [the defendant] did feloniously, wilfully and of his Malice aforethought kill and murder [the deceased]
For manslaughter:
That [the defendant] did feloniously kill and slay [the deceased]
In this case, "kill", "murder" and "slay" are all Germanic words, though "murder" may have gone into French and then back into English, which is why it has the extra R compared to German "Mord" and Dutch "moord".