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An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one persongiving another some dangerous hurt 3 Bl. Comm. 121.Wreccum marls significat ilia bona quae naufragio ad terram pelluntur. Awreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck.

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