mental anguish
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 240 U.S. 612 - Southern Express Company v. John Byers · 1916Most cited · 247 citing opinions
Mere mental pain and anxiety are too vague for legal redress where no injury is done to person, property, health, or reputation.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
When connected with a physical in-j'ury, this term includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. See Rnilway Co. v. Corley (Text) 26 S. W. 904; Railway Co. v. Miller, 25 Tex. Civ. App. 460, 61 S. W. 978; Keyes v. Railway Co.., 36 Minn. 290, 30 N. W. 888. In other connections, and as a ground for damages or an element of damages, it includes the mental suffering resulting from the excitation of the more poignant and painful emotions, such as grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride, shame, public humiliation, despnir, etc.,
Defined under Mental in Black's Law Dictionary.