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Mutilation

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In criminal law. The depriving a man of the use af any of those limbs which may be useful to him in fight, the loss of which amounts to mayhem.

1 BL Comm. 130.