and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate settled design upon another man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exposed his life to the other's power to be taken away by him, or any one that joins with him in his defence, and espouses his quarrel;
Honela, hitzez edo ekintzaz beste pertsona baten bizitzaren kontra egiten denean-ez amorruz eta unean bertan erabakita, baizik eta egitasmo sosegatu baten ostean-, orduan, horrelako intentzioa erakutsi zaionarekiko guda egoeran sartzen da bat. Modu honetan, pertsona bat arriskuan izanen da, beste batek edo hau defendatzeko borroka berean sartu den batek bizitza ken baitiezaioke.