personal injury

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 287 U.S. 367 - Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · 1932Most cited · 1,147 citing opinions

The failure to provide maintenance or cure may be a personal injury or something else according to the consequences. If the default of the vessel and its officers has impaired his bodily or mental health, the damage to mind or body is none the less a personal injury because he may be free at his election to plead it in a different count.

United States Code

15 U.S.C. § 6602 — in this chapter

The term “personal injury” means physical injury to a natural person, including—

(A) death as a result of a physical injury; and

(B) mental suffering, emotional distress, or similar injuries suffered by that person in connection with a physical injury.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

An invasion of a personal right and pertaining to the person. See 164 Mich. 26, Ann. Cas. 1912B, 654, 128 N. W. 1084.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bodily injury. State v. Clay borne, 14 Wash. 022, 45 Pac. 303.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A hurt or damage done to a man's person, such as a cut or bruise, a broken limb, or the like, as distinguished from an injury to his property or his reputation. The phrase is chiefly used in connection with actions of tort for negligence. Norris v. Grove, 100 Mich. 256. 58 N. W. 1006; State v. Claybome, 14 Wash. 622, 45 Pac. 303 ; Terre Haute Bl. Rv. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 466, 52 N. E. 703. But the term is also used (chiefly in statutes) in a much wider sense, and as including any injury which is an invasion of personal rights, and in this signification it may include such injuries as libel or slandqr, criminal conversation with a wife, seduction of a daughter, and mental suffering. See Delamater v. Russell, 4 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 234; Garrison v. Burden. 40 Ala. 516; McDonald v. Brown, 23 R. I. 546, 51 Atl. 213, 58 In R, A. 768, 91 Am. St. Rep. 659; Morton v. Western Union Tel. Co.., 130 N. C. 299, 41 S. B. 484; Williams v. Williams, 20 Colo. 51. 37 Pan. 614; Hood v. Sudderth, 111 N. C. 215, 16 S. E. 397.

Defined under Injury in Black's Law Dictionary.