Serious
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Important; weighty; momentana, and not trifling; as in the phrases "serious bodily harm," "serious personal injury," etc.
Lawlor v. People, 74 III. 231; Union Mut. In Ins. Co., v. Wilkinson, 13 Wall. 230, 20 L. Ed. 617.