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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 the Offences against the (English) Person Act, 1861, a felony, punishable up to penal servitude for life; and by s. 19 of the same Act unlawfully and maliciously wounding or inflicting any grievous bodily harm is a misdemeanour punishable by five years' penal servitude....


Affairs of a company have been completely wound up

Affairs of a company have been completely wound up, The phrase 'the affairs of a company have been completely wound up' significant. It shows that the expressions 'winding up of a company' and 'winding up of the affairs of a company' convey the same sense, for we think that the phrase 'the affairs of a company' means the business affairs of the company, The Neptune Assurance Company Ltd. v. Union of India (1973) 2 SCR 940: AIR 1973 SC 602: (1973) 1 SCC 310. [General Insurance (Emergency Provisions) Act (17 of 1971) s. 15(a)]...


Heart wounded

Wounded to the heart with love or grief...


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....


Wound

Wound, any lesion of the body, whether cut, bruise, contusion, fracture, dislocation, or burn. In surgery it is confined to a solution of continuity in any part of the body, suddenly caused by anything that cuts or tears, with a division of the skin....


Winding-up

Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...


Bullfight

a sport of great antiquity in which men torment and fight with a bull or bulls in an arena for public amusement still popular in Spain Portugal and Latin American In the Spanish version a matador kills the bull with a sword after the bull has been weakened by wounds from small barbed rods and after he has displayed courage and artistic skill in causing the bull to charge many times while he stands still or nearly still In some versions the bull is not killed Occasionally the matador is wounded or killed by the bull...


Mangle

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes making a ragged or torn wound or covering with wounds to tear in cutting to cut in a bungling manner to lacerate to mutilate...


Pirn

A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound a bobbin also the wound yarn on a weavers shuttle also the reel of a fishing rod...


Scar

A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal made by a wound or ulcer and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed a cicatrix a mark left by a previous injury a blemish a disfigurement...


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