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Poison

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In medical jurisprudence. A substance having an inherent deleterious property which renders it, when taken into the system, capable of destroying life.

Whart. & S. Med. Jur. § 493; Tayl. Poisons (2d Am. Ed.) 18.