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Maim
(v) Maim is the inflicting of severe bodily harm to a person by an aggravated assault resulting in injury, mutilation or incapability to do physical functions.
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maim
v. to inflict a serious bodily injury, including mutilation or any harm which limits the victim's ability to function physically.

MAIM, pleadings. This is a technical word necessary to be introduced into all indictments for mayhem; the words "feloniously did maim," must of necessity be inserted, because no other word, or any circumlocution, will answer the same purpose.

maim: To cripple or mutilate in any way; to injure a person in a way that deprives him or her of the use of any limb or other part of his or her body; to seriously wound, disfigure, or disable. (See also mayhem.) ...

Maim
Definition - Transitive Verb
: to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously
compare mayhem
Pronunciation'mAm ...

Assets enter maim, or assets in hand, is such property as at once comes to the executor or other trustee, for the purpose of satisfying claims against him as such.

Also known as maim.
Bryne's Law Dictionary defines mayhem as:
"Violently depriving another of the use of a member proper for his defence in fight, such as an arm, a leg, an eye, etc.

ICTUS ORBIS
med. jurisp. A maim, a bruise, or swelling; any hurt without cutting the skin. When the skin is cut, the injury is called a wound. (q. v.)... more ...

there was premeditation rather than manslaughter, especially if the victim had been struck in a vital organ. Similarly, if there was known enmity between the two, the presumption would be that it was a case of homicide rather than manslaughter (Maim.