aforethought

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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

In criminal law, intentional, deliberate, planned, or premeditated.

Murder in the first degree, for example, requires malice aforethought; that is, the murder must have been planned for a period of time, regardless how short, before it was committed.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - bevidst, overlagt, forsætligt

Nederlands (Dutch)
voorbedacht met voorbedachten rade

Français (French)
adj. - prémédité

Deutsch (German)
adj. - vorbedacht

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - προμελετημένος, εσκεμμένος

Italiano (Italian)
premeditato

idioms:

• with malice aforethought    con premeditazione, premeditatamente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - premeditado, deliberado

idioms:

• with malice aforethought    com maldade deliberada (Jur.), premeditado com intenção maldosa (Jur.)

Русский (Russian)
умысел

idioms:

• with malice aforethought    предумышленно

Español (Spanish)
adj. - premeditado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - överlagd, uppsåtlig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
预谋的, 故意的, 事先考虑的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 預謀的, 故意的, 事先考慮的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 계획적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - あらかじめ考えた, 計画的な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مبيت, مدبر, متعمد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮במחשבה תחילה, מתוך כוונה‬

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