Wounding
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hurt.
3 Bl. Comm. 121.
WRECCUIVI MARIS SIGNIFICAT ILLA bona quae naufragio ad terram peliuntur. A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck. WRECK (called in Law Lat. wreccum maris, and in Law Fr. wrec de mer). In a popular sense, a ship which has received injuries rendering her incapable of navigation. In Maritime Law. Such goods as, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea, and left there within some country, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law.
2 Inst. 167; 1 Bl. Comm. 290-293.