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Grievous bodily harm

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Shooting or wounding, or causing any grievous bodily harm

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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 … 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,

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Bodily harm

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Poison

(1863) 3 F&F 681. Unlawful and malicious administering of poison so as to endanger life or to inflict grievous bodily harm is a felony, punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment; and such adminis-tration with intent

Volenti non fit injuria

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.

Capital offences (Scotland)

stab with intent to murder or maim, or to administer poison, with intent to murder, disable or do grievous bodily harm, or (by s. 2) to throw any sulphuric acid, etc., with intent to murder or maim.

Spring guns

Spring guns. The setting of spring guns, etc., calculated to destroy life or inflict grievous bodily harm on a trespasser, is a misdemeanour, Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 31. Damages are recoverable by

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