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MAIM Definition & Legal Meaning

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To deprive a person of a member or part of the btfdy. the loss of which renders him less capable of fighting: to commit mayhem, (q. v.) State v. Johnson, 58 Ohio St. 417, 51 N. E. 40, 65 Am. St. Rep. 709. In this respect, “to wound” is distinguishable from “to maim;” for the latter implies a permanent injury, whereas a wound is any mutilation or laceration which breaks the continuity of the outer skin. Itegina v. Bullock, 11 Oox, Crim. Cas. 125. But both in common speech and as the word is now used in statutes and in the criminal law MAIN 747

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