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harmful

harmful : of a kind likely to cause harm harm·ful·ly adv harm·ful·ness n ...

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....

harm

harm : loss of or damage to a person's right, property, or physical or mental well-being : injury harm vt ...

Grievous bodily harm

Grievous bodily harm. See ACTUAL BODILY HARM....

Harmful publication

Harmful publication, means any book, magazine, pamphlet, leaflet, newspaper or other like publication which consists of stories told with the aid of pictures or without the aid of pictures or wholly in pictures, being stories portraying wholly or mainly:(i) the commission of offences; or(ii) acts of violence or cruelty; or(iii) incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature. [Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 (93 of 1956), s. 2 (a)]...

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....

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