Corpus

Lat. [from corpus, a body.] That which has a body or material substance; corporeal. Corporales res; corporeal things; things which may be touched and seen; such as land, garments, gold and silver, &c., comprising both moveables and immoveables. Bract, fol.

7 b, 10 b, 13 b.

That which relates to, or affects the body; bodily; personal. Corporalis injuria non recipit aestimationem de futuro. A personal injury does not receive satisfaction from a future course of proceeding [is not left for its satisfaction to a future course of proceeding].

Bacon's Max. 34, regula 6.

The law, in many cases that concern lands or goods, doth deprive a man of his present remedy, and turneth him over to a further circuit of remedy, rather than to suffer an inconvenience; but if it be a question of personal pain, the law will not compel him to sustain it and expect remedy, because it holdeth no damage a sufficient recompense for a wrong which is corporal. Id. ibid. This maxim seems to embody the general principle of law which allows to personal injuries the speediest course of remedy.