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Mayhem definition:
Violently depriving another person of a body part to render less effective that person's defence of self.
Related Terms: Affray
Also known as maim.
Mayhem
(n) Mayhem is the act of disfigurement or defacement inflicted on a person by an intentional act or on a fight with such person. Mayhem is also termed as aggravated assault .
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mayhem
1) n. the criminal act of disabling, disfiguring or cutting off or making useless one of the members (leg, arm, hand, foot, eye) of another either intentionally or in a fight, called maiming.
mayhem: Unlawfully and violently depriving a person of a part of his or her body or disabling, disfiguring, or making it useless (includes injury to eyes, tongue, nose, ears, etc.).
Mayhem
Definition - Noun
[Anglo-French mahaim mahain, literally, mutilation, from Old French mahain, from mahaignier to injure, mutilate]
: willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of another's body
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Its mayhem was intended, among other purposes, as a means of controlling black labor, reinforcing social deference to whites, disciplining perceived instances of interracial sexual relationships, ...
that no other terms, however synonymous they may seem, are capable of filling the same office: such, for example, as traitorously, (q. v.) in treason; feloniously, (q. v.) in felony; burglariously, (q. v.) in burglary; maim, (q. v.) in mayhem, &c.
Duress per minas, which is either for fear of loss of life, or else for fear of mayhem, or loss of limb,; and this must be upon a sufficient reason. In this case, a man way avoid his own act.
In law "maiming" is a criminal offence; the old law term for a special case of maiming of persons was "mayhem" (q.v.), an Anglo-French variant form of the word.
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... more ...
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