Bruise
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. An injury done with violence to the person, without breaking the skin. It is nearly synonymous with "contusion" (q. v.) 1 Chanc. Prac. 38.
See 4 Car. & P. 381, 487, 558, 565.