Outrage
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A general term for any grave injury or heinous wrong; any violation of another's right which shocks the general moral sense. It is not a law term, though often met in the decisions on wrongs and crimes. Burrill says that it is of law-French origin, formerly meaning excess; more than is one's due or right. Outrage and indignity. In estimating damages in cases of assault and battery, in the meaning of outrage and indignity. Mc Kinley v. Chicago, &c.
R. R. Co., 44 Iowa, 314.