Serious — Law Dictionary

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Important, weighty, momentous, and not trifling. Lawlor v. People, 74 111. 231. A serious injury is defined by statute in Ohio to be any such injury as shall permanently or temporarily disable a person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor; Ohio L. 1892, 136; and serious bodily injury is held to be one which gives rise to apprehension, or is attended with great danger. George v. State, 21 Tex. App. 317, 17 S. W. 351.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Important; weighty; momentana, and not trifling; as in the phrases "serious bodily harm," "serious personal injury," etc. Lawlor v. People, 74 III. 231; Union Mut. In Ins. Co., v. Wilkinson, 13 Wall. 230, 20 L. Ed. 617.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

"Serious bodily harm" is synonymous with " great bodily harm." 7

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

When used in a phrase such as " serious bodily harm," this word is synonymous with great, and its use in criminal pleading, instead of the word great, is a sufficient compliance with a statute using the phrase great bodily harm. Lawlor v. People, 74 lU. 228.