offer as an excuse or plea

An abbreviation of Society, The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction, Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens

a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc, a note explaining an absence, a poor example, verb_ defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning, transitive verb_ To make allowance for; overlook or forgive, To apologize for (oneself) for an act that could cause offense, To give permission to leave; release

The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, countable A group of crows; the collective noun for crows, uncountable, law The commission of any act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a person, verb_ To botch or mangle, kill intentionally and with premeditation, To botch or mangle, transitive verb_ To destroy; to put an end to, To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See murder, n, To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle, intransitive verb_ To commit murder, To spoil by ineptness; mutilate, To kill brutally or inhumanly