wounding
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
Definitions from Case Law
From 499 U.S. 530 - Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Floyd · 1991Most cited · 665 citing opinions
and contemplates cases of traumatism and nervous troubles, the consequences of which do not immediately become manifest in the organism but which can be related to the accident.' " Mankiewicz 146.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hurt. 3 Bl. Comm. 121. WRECCUIVI MARIS SIGNIFICAT ILLA bona quae naufragio ad terram peliuntur. A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck. WRECK (called in Law Lat. wreccum maris, and in Law Fr. wrec de mer).
In a popular sense, a ship which has received injuries rendering her incapable of navigation. In Maritime Law. Such goods as, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea, and left there within some country, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. 2 Inst. 167; 1 Bl. Comm. 290-293.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The offense of inflicting a wound.