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A baker originally a female baker...
Volenti non fit injuria
Volenti non fit injuria. Plow. 501.-(Where the sufferer is willing no injury is done.) See this maxim criticized by Lord Esher in Yarmouth v. France, (1887) 19 QBD at p. 653, and by Lord Watson in Smith v. Baker, 1891, AC (355). The question is one for the jury, Dublin, etc., Railway Co. v. Slattery, (1878) 3 App Cas 1155. For a recent application of the maxim, see Herd v. Weardale, etc., Co., 195, AC 67.Consent or 'leave and licence' may be said to be a defence in actions of tort or prosecutions (see Archbold, Cr. Pr.), where the consent is to the specific injury or act, unless the act amounts to the infliction of a serious physical injury or where the rights of the public as well as the individual sustaining harm have intervened. The public are interested in preventing one of their number from grievous bodily harm and from exhibitions which alarm the public conscience, such as prize-fights without gloves, duels, etc., and see LIBEL.The maxim has also been invoked in cases where the p...
Backster
A baker...
Backstress
A female baker...
Baker
One whose business it is to bake bread biscuit etc...
Baker legged
Having legs that bend inward at the knees...
Bakery
The trade of a baker...
Bakistre
A baker...
Christian Science
A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental and that sin sickness and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus teaching and healing The system was founded by Rev Mary Baker Glover Eddy of Concord N H in 1866 and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents...
Aggravated assaults
Aggravated assaults, 'Aggravated' means aggravated in respect of violence, not by reason of indecency, R. v. Baker, (1876) 46 LJ Ex 75; on females or boys under fourteen, see (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 43, which allows two justices, 'if the assault or battery is of such an aggravated nature that it cannot in their opinion be sufficiently punished under the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six months' imprisonment with hard labour or to fine him up to 20l. including costs (the maximum punishment for a common assault being two months' imprisonment, or a fine up to 5l.) and to bind him over to keep the peace. (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (c. 86), s. 39 (2), has increased the fine up to 50l., not including costs.Means the criminal assault accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the intent to commit another crime, or the intent to cause serious bodily har...
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