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LIMB Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

A member of the human body. In the phrase “life and limb,” the latter term appears to denote bodily integrity in general; but in the definition of “mayhem” it refers only to those members or parts of the body which may be useful to a man in fighting. 1 Bl. Comm. 130.

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