murdrum
(UK, historical) A secret killing, distinguished from simple homicide in that the victim and the killer are unknown.
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(UK, historical) A secret killing, distinguished from simple homicide in that the victim and the killer are unknown.
Death by misadventure or starvation might be a 'murdrum' if there was no presentment of Englishry.
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(UK, historical) A fine imposed by the Crown on a manor or district in which such a secret killing had been committed.
If the person slain be unknown, then in such case it belongs to the coroners to enter a murdrum on their rolls, according to the statute of King Knut, made on setting out for Denmark, who, for the preservation of his Danes whom he left i…
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