intoxication
Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
United States Code
42 U.S.C. § 3796B — as used in this subchapter (5 versions over time)
“intoxication” means a disturbance of mental or physical faculties resulting from the introduction of alcohol into the body as evidenced by—
(A) a post-injury blood alcohol level of .20 per centum or greater; or
(B) a post-injury blood alcohol level of at least .10 per centum but less than .20 per centum unless the Bureau receives convincing evidence that the public safety officer was not acting in an intoxicated manner immediately prior to his fatal or catastrophic injury;
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Dbunkenness.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. But in its popular use this term is restricted to alcoholic intoxication, that is, drunkenness or inebriety or the mental and physical condition induced by drinking excessive quantities of alcoholic liq-' uors, and this is its meaning as used in statutes, indictments, etc. See Sapp v. State, 116 Ga. 182, 42 S. E. 410; State v. Pierce, 65 Iowa, 85, 21 N. W. 195; Wadsworth v. Dunnam, 98 Ala. 610, 13 South. 599; Ring v. Ring, 112 Ga. 854, 38 S. E. 330; State v. Kelley, 47 Vt. 296; Coin. v. Whitney, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 477.