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ed. jur. This term, in legal medicine, comprehends all lesions of the body, and in this it differs from the meaning of the word when used in surgery. The latter only refers to a solution of continuity, while the former comprises not only these, but also every other kind of accident, such as bruises, contusions, fractures, dislocations, and the like. In criminal cases, the … [Read more...] about WOUND

A program providing financial benefits to those who are injured on the job, helping with medical expenses and lost income that result. The amounts are generally modest and designed to compense the employee and/or the employees family and preventing the employee from suing the employer for injury or death as a result of being on the job. … [Read more...] about WORKERS COMPENSATION

An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hur. Causing harm or an injury to a person or a live animal. Wreccum maris significat ilia bona quae naufragio ad terram pelluntur. A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck. … [Read more...] about WOUNDING

A prison where prisoners are kept in employment; a penitentiary. A house provided where the poor are taken care of, and kept in employment. … [Read more...] about WORKHOUSE

mar. law. A wreck signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. 2. The term "wreck of the sea" includes, 1. Goods found at low water, between high and low water mark; and 2. Goods between the same limits, partly resting on the ground, … [Read more...] about WRECK