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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
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
Prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue
a conception of acts or orders which are subversive of the administration of revenue. There must be some grievous error in the order passed by the Income Tax Officer, which might set a bad trend or pattern
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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
Fairs
the preamble that 'certain of the fairs held in England and Wales are unnecessary, are the cause of grievous immorality, and are very injurious to the inhabitants of the town in which such fairs are held,' gives
Fractus augent h'reditatem
or a mere scratch on the surface of the bone, it will be difficult to infer is a grievous hurt within the meaning of S. 320 of the Penal code. Both these assumptions are misleading. It is
Fracture
or a mere scratch on the surface of the bone, it will be difficult to infer is a grievous hurt within the meaning of S. 320 of the Penal code. Both these assumptions are misleading. It is
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.
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.
Mournful
Full of sorrow expressing or intended to express sorrow mourning grieving sad also causing sorrow saddening grievous as a mournful person mournful looks tones loss
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