Wound
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 wound, according to its use in English statutes, is an injury to the person breaking through the continuity of the skin.
Moriarty v. Brooks, 6 Car. & P. 684.
Meaning the whole skin, not the cuticle only.
Regina v. M'Loughlin, 8 Car. & P. 635.
It is, moreover, distinguishable from a permanent injury, such as maiming.
Haywood's Case, 2 East P. C. 1076. Wounding.
An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hurt.