Sickness
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives it temporarily of the power to fulfil its usual functions. It has been held to include insanity.
L. R. 8 Q. B. 295.
Sickness Is either such as affects the body generally, or only some parts of It. Of the former class a fever Is an example; of the latter, blindness. When, a process has been issued against an individual for his arrest, the sheriff or other officer is authorized, after he has arrested him, if he be so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or his health, to let him remain where he found him, and to return the facts at large, or simply lan g uidus.