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Definition of Grievous bodily harm
1. Noun. Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate.
Generic synonyms: Gamma Hydroxybutyrate, Ghb
Definition of Grievous bodily harm
1. Noun. (''UK Law'') Serious physical injury, or the fact of causing such injury. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grievous Bodily Harm
Literary usage of Grievous bodily harm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"IN numerous instances the words " grievous bodily harm " occur in criminal ...
11, "whosoever shall cause grievous bodily harm with intent to murder" is ..."
2. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime ...by Seymour Frederick Harris, Charles Leete Attenborough by Seymour Frederick Harris, Charles Leete Attenborough (1899)
"ACTUAL AND grievous bodily harm. Aetual bodily If the assault occasions actual
bodily harra, the punishment is penal servitude to the extent of three ..."
3. The Criminal Code of Japan by Japan, Joseph Ernest De Becker (1907)
"Whosoever shall have wounded and injured or inflicted any (grievous) bodily harm
upon any other person, shall be punished with penal servitude for a period ..."
4. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1877)
"(«) L But although the intent laid be that of doing grievous bodily harm, and
upon the evidence it appears that the prisoner's main and principal intent was ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty, Richard Peters (1819)
"said and by means 'thereof, to do his majesty's subject some grievous bodily
harm, against the peace, &c. and against the form, &c. ..."
6. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1836)
"figure, and disable ; third, and do some other grievous bodily harm. Williams,
for the prisoner, objected ; — First, that the first and second counts in the ..."
7. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"Assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.— In some states statutes have
been passed specifically punishing assault with intent to do grievous bodily ..."
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