Sadism
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
That state of sexual perversion in man in which the sexual inclination manL fests itself by the desire to beat, to maltreat, humiliate and even to kill the person for whom the passion is conceived.
3 Witth. & Beck, Med. Jur. 739.
S^VITIA (Lat.).
Cruelty.
To constitute scevitia there must be such a degree of cruelty as to endanger the party’s suffering bodily