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MAIMING , See also:

mutilation, a See also:physical injury which involves the loss of, or incapacity to use, a bodily member. The verb " to maim," in M. E. maynhe, mahayme, mayme, &c. was adopted from O. Fr. mahaignier: cf. It. magagnars, Med. See also:Lat. mahemiare, mahennare, &c. (see Du Cange, See also:Gloss., s.v. " Mahamium "). Maiming or mutilation is and has been practised by many races with various ethnical and religious significances, and was a customary See also:form of See also:punishment on the principle of an " See also:eye for an eye " (see MUTILATION). In See also:law " maiming " is a criminal offence; the old law See also:term for a See also:special See also:case of maiming of persons was " See also:mayhem " (q.v.), an Anglo-See also:French variant form of the word. Maiming of animals by others than their owners is a particular form of the offences generally grouped as " malicious damage." For the purpose of the law as to this offence animals are divided into See also:cattle, which includes horses, pigs and asses, and other animals which are either subjects of See also:larceny at See also:common law or are usually kept in confinement or for domestic purposes. The punishment for maiming of cattle is three to fourteen years' penal See also:servitude.

Malicious injury to other animals is a See also:

misdemeanour punishable on See also:summary conviction. For a second offence the See also:penalty is imprisonment with hard labour for over twelve months. (Malicious Damage See also:Act 1861.) Maiming of animals by their owner falls under the See also:Cruelty to Animals Acts.

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