Mutilate - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Mutilate, means 'something less than total destruc-tion' or 'to deface'. The law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1995 - 'Mutilate to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body; to deprive of some essential part; to render imperfect.' Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Vol. 27A - 'Mutilate' means something less than total destruction...... 'To mutilate' in the sense in which it is generally used by law writers and judges, means to render imperfect...... 'mutilate'.......means to destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect erroneously defined word as applied to articles such as books and manuscripts, rather than defining it as applied to the human body as meaning to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body', the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. X, 'Mutilate - To render (a thing, especially a record, book, etc.) imperfect by cutting off or destroying a part. 'Mutilated of things: Having some part cut off or destroyed wanting some portion essential to com...
Mutilation
The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated deprivation of a limb or of an essential part...
Mutilate
Deprived of or having lost an important part mutilated...
mutilated
badly injured perhaps with amputation or permanent disfigurement as mutilated victims of the rocket attack...
Mutilator
One who mutilates...
Mutilous
Mutilated defective imperfect...
Mutilation
Mutilation, deprivation of a limb or any essential part. See MAYHEM....
mayhem
mayhem [Anglo-French mahaim mahain, literally, mutilation, from Old French mahain, from mahaignier to injure, mutilate] : willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of another's body ;also : the crime of engaging in mayhem NOTE: Under the Model Penal Code and the codes of the states that follow it, mayhem is encompassed by assault and aggravated assault. ...
spoliation
spoliation 1 : the destruction, alteration, or mutilation of evidence esp. by a party for whom the evidence is damaging 2 : alteration or mutilation of an instrument (as a will) by one who is not a party to the instrument ...
defile
defile de·filed de·fil·ing : to dishonor by physical acts (as trampling, dirtying, or mutilating) [defiling the flag] de·file·ment n de·fil·er n ...
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