Bodily Harm - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Actual bodily harm. 'An assault occasioning actual bodily harm' is an offence within s. 47 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (English). On an indictment for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm the accused may be convicted of a common assault, R. v. Oliver, (1860) 30 LJMC 12. A husband, who, whilst suffering from venereal disease, had marital intercourse with his wife and thereby infected her, cannot be convicted under this section, R. v. Clarence, (1888) 22 QBD 23. The expression is also used in the Dangerous Performances Acts, 1879 and 1897. See also BODILY HARM....
Bodily harm
Bodily harm, generally used in contradistinction to 'actual bodily harm' or 'grievous bodily harm,' as meaning a trivial injury. See ACTUAL BODILY HARM....
Grievous bodily harm
Grievous bodily harm. See ACTUAL BODILY HARM....
Shooting or wounding, or causing any grievous bodily harm
Shooting or wounding, or causing any grievous bodily harm, with intention to maim, disfigure, or disable, or to do some other grievous bodily harm, or with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detaining of any person, is a felony; see 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 18....
bodily harm
bodily harm : bodily injury ...
serious bodily harm
serious bodily harm : serious bodily injury ...
bodily injury
bodily injury : any damage to a person's physical condition including pain or illness called also bodily harm compare emotional distress, serious bodily injury ...
Wounding
Wounding. Unlawfully and maliciously wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent to do grievous bodily harm to any person by any means is, by s. 18 of the Offences against the (English) Person Act, 1861, a felony, punishable up to penal servitude for life; and by s. 19 of the same Act unlawfully and maliciously wounding or inflicting any grievous bodily harm is a misdemeanour punishable by five years' penal servitude....
assault
assault [Old French assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear of such harm or contact compare battery 2 : the crime of assault accompanied by battery ;specif : sexual assault in this entry called also assault and battery aggravated assault : a criminal assault accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : a criminal assault that is committed with an intent to cause or that causes serious bodily injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : a criminal assault accompanied by the intent to commit or the commission of a felony (as rape) compare simple assault in this entry assault with intent : a criminal assault committed with the intent to commit another specified crime [assault with intent to rob] [assault with intent to kill] civ...
Battery
Battery [batterie, Fr., fr battre, to beat], beating and wounding. This, in law, includes every touching or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes, in an angry, revengeful, rude, insolent, or hostile manner. It is a good defence to prove that the alleged battery happened by misadventure, or that it was merely an amicable contest, or that it was the correcting of a child by its parent, or the punishment of a criminal by the proper officer, or that the prosecutor assaulted or beat the defendant first, and that the defendant committed the alleged battery merely in his own defence as to the criminal proceedings for battery, see (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), ss. 42, 43. See ASSAULT.Battery, includes even the slightest force, no actual harm need result, it is actionable per se, Kenlin v. Gardiner, (1967) 2 QB 510; Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner, (1969) 1 QB 439; Freeman v. Home Office, (1984) QB 524.Means a crime and...
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