Serious
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
When used in a phrase such as " serious bodily harm," this word is synonymous with great, and its use in criminal pleading, instead of the word great, is a sufficient compliance with a statute using the phrase great bodily harm.
Lawlor v. People, 74 lU. 228.