Maihemium
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
I., Mayhem, maim, etc. Violently depriving another of a member used in fighting; such an injury to a man as diminishes his power of self-defence.