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Mayhem - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Mayhem : (noun)
1: the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another
person
2: violent and needless disturbance [syn: havoc]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Maim \Maim\, n. [Written in law language maihem, and
mayhem.] [OF. mehaing. See Maim, v.]
1. The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body,
by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to
annoy his adversary.
2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling;
mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential.
See Mayhem.
Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want
there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.
--Hooker.
A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history
that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.
--Hayward.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Mayhem : \May"hem\, n. [The same as maim. See Maim.] (Law)
The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of
his members which are necessary for defense or protection.
See Maim.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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MAYHEM, crimes. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the
use of such of his members as may render him less able in fighting either to
defend himself or annoy his adversary; and therefore the cutting or
disabling, or weakening a man's hand or finger, or striking out his eye or
foretooth, or depriving him of those parts the loss of which abates his
courage, are held to be mayhems. But cutting off the ear or nose or the
like, are not held to be mayhems at common law. 4 Bl. Com. 205.
2. These and other severe personal injuries are punished by the
Coventry act, (q.v.) which has been re-enacted in several of the states;
Ryan's Med. Jurispr. 191, Phil. ed. 1832; and by congress. Vide act of
April 30, 1790, s. 13, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 85; act of March 3, 1825, s. 22,
3 Story's L. U. S. 2006.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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