Outrage
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A grave injury; a serious wrong. A generic word which is applied to everything which is injurious in a great degree to the honor or rights of another. 44 Iowa 314.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A grave injury; a serious wrong. This is a generic word which is applied to everything which is injurious in a great degree to the honor or rights of another. Mc Kinley v. R. Co., 44 la. 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I fr. In old English law. right
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Injurious violence, or, in general, any species of serious wrong offered to the person, feelings, or rights of another, See 44 lowa, 314.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A general term for any grave injury or heinous wrong; any violation of another's right which shocks the general moral sense. It is not a law term, though often met in the decisions on wrongs and crimes. Burrill says that it is of law-French origin, formerly meaning excess; more than is one's due or right. Outrage and indignity. In estimating damages in cases of assault and battery, in the meaning of outrage and indignity. Mc Kinley v. Chicago, &c. R. R. Co., 44 Iowa, 314.