A) 10th Century
B) 11th Century
C) 12th Century
D) 14th Century
Correct Answer: D
Solution :
In English society, murder was one of the crimes mentioned in both the Assize of Clarendon of 1166 and Assize of Northampton in 1176, however, it was pardonable. It was in 1390 that a statute defined murder as "killing by malice prepense" and attempted to make it unpardonable crime. By inference, other forms of culpable homicide could not be called murder and later, they acquired the name manslaughter.
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