Ictus
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Old English Law. A stroke or blow from a club or stone; a bruise, contusion, or swelling produced by such blow, as distinguished from "plaga" (a wound).
Fleta, Ub. 1, c. 41, 3.
ICTUS ORBiS (Lat). In Medical Jurisprudence. A maim, a bruise, or swelling; any hurt without cutting the skin. When the skin is cut, the injury is called a wound. Bracton, lib.
2, tr. 2, c. 5 and 24.
Ictus is often used by medical authors In the sense of percussus. It is applied to the pulsation of the arteries, to any external lesion of the body produced by violence; also, to the wound inflicted by a scorpion or venalso, to the eyeballs: ocuU dicuntur orhes.
Castelli, Lex. Med. ID E8T (Lat).
That Is. Commonly abbreviated 4. e.