Mayhemavit
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Maimed.
This Is a term of art which cannot be supplied In pleading by any other word, as mutilavit, truncavit, etc.; 3 Thomas Co. Litt. 648; Com. v. Newell, 7 Mass. 247. In indictments for mayhem the words feloniotcsly and did maim are requisite; Whart. Cr. Pr. § 260, n.