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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

an epithet for any thing belonging to the body, as, corporal punishment, for punishment inflicted on the person of the criminal; corporal oath, which isan oath by the party who takes it being obliged to lay his hand on the Bible.