Section 217: Interpretation of “premeditation”
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217. Interpretation of “premeditation”
La préméditation consiste dans le Premeditation consists in the dedessein formé d’attenter à la per- termined intention of attempting the
sonne d’un individu déterminé, ou person of any particular individual, or
même de celui qui sera trouvé ou of any individual who may be found
rencontré, quand même ce dessein or met with, even though such inserait dépendant de quelque circons- tention should depend upon some
tance ou de quelque condition. circumstance or condition.
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