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serious bodily injury<\/span>:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>(1843)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Serious physical impairment of the human body; especially, bodily injury<\/a> that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes serious, permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any body part or organ. Model Penal Code \u00a7 210.0(3).<\/a>\u00a0 *\u00a0 Typically, the fact-finder<\/a> must decide <\/strong>in an given case whether the injury meets this general standard.\u00a0 Generally, an injury meets this standard if it creates a substantial risk of fatal consequences or, when inflicted, constitutes mayhem.<\/strong> \u2014 Abbr. SBI. \u2014 aka serious bodily harm<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; grievous bodily harm<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; great bodily injury<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Cf. MAYHEM (1). [1]
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1. An injury which gives rise to apprehension; an injury which is attended with danger.\u00a0 (Webster’s Dictionary.)\u00a0 George v State<\/em>, 21 Tex App 315, 317<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word “serious,” when used to define the degree of bodily harm or injury apprehended, requires or implies as hiagh a degree as the word “great,” and the latter word means high in degree, as contradistinguished from trifling.\u00a0 Lawlor v People<\/em>, 74 Ill 228, 231<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An injury that gives rise to a reasonable fear for the life of the person who has been injured.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>with Pronunciations
\n<\/span><\/a><\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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