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Maim

To deprive of the use of a limb so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary...

Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission to his subjects to bequeath their property to the Church. This permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments.Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at an early period that ordinary had the power to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distr...

Hospitals

Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance; or sole, in which the master, etc., only has the estate in him, and the brethren or sisters, having college and common seal in them, must consent, or the master alone has the estate, not having college or common seal. So hospitals are eligible, donatives, or preventative, Jac. Law Dict.By 39 Eliz. c. 5, made perpetual by 21 Jac. 1, c. 1, any person seised of an estate in fee-simple may, by deed enrolled in Chancery, erect and found a hospital for the sustenance and relief of 'the maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of the yearly value of 20l.For power of local authorities to provide hospitals for their districts, see Public Health Act, 1875, s. 131; Isolation Hospitals Acts, 1893, 1901 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 68; 1 Edw. 7, c. 8), all repealed from Oct. 1937 and repla...

Ictus orbus

Ictus orbus, a maim, bruise, or swelling; a hurt without cutting the skin, Cowel's Law Dict....

Maihematus

Maihematus, maimed or wounded....

Mayhem

Mayhem, the deprivation of a member proper for defence in fight, as an arm, leg, finger, eye, or a fore-tooth; yet not a jawtooth, or an ear, or a nose, because they have been supposed to be of no use infighting. One circumstance peculiar to an action for mayhem was that the Court might, on view of the wound increase the damages awarded by the jury, 3 Salk. 115. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), ss. 18, 29.Mayhemavit (he has maimed)....

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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