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good samaritan

good Samaritan in the New Testament parable (Luke 10:30-37)] : one who voluntarily renders aid to another in distress although under no duty to do so

bodily injury

: any damage to a person's physical condition including pain or illness called also bodily harm compare emotional distress, serious bodily injury

malignant

Disposed to do harm inflict suffering or cause distress actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity virulently inimical bent on evil malicious

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Hungry

Feeling hunger having a keen appetite feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food hence having an eager desire

Outcry

A vehement or loud cry a cry of distress alarm opposition or detestation clamor

Bailiff

rent, for which employment the certificate of a county court judge is required under the (English) Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1888. Bailiffs to execute county court processes are appointed under s. 28 of the (English) County

Distrainer, or Distrainor

Distrainer, or Distrainor, he who seizes a distress.

Damages

e.g., time and place of an assault or trespass, or the peculiar nature of the wrong or the distress of mind produced in the plaintiff, e.g., actions of seduction, false imprisonment breach of promise of marriage. See

Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts

Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts (English) empowered the Courts (inter alia) to defer execution,the levying of distress, realization of securities, etc., during the war. The policy of protecting certain classes of tenants and mortgagors was

County Courts

1882, the Inebriate Acts, the Agricultural Holdings Acts, the Charitable Trusts Acts,the Settled Land Acts, the Law of Distress Amendment Acts, and the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, by s. 17 of which, in any question between

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