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Throat

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In Medical Jurisprudence. The The word throat, in an indictment which charged the defendant with murder by cutting the throat of the deceased, does not mean, and is not to be confined to, that part of the neck which is scientifically called the throat, but signifies that which is commonly called the throat.

6 C. & P. 401.