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actual bodily harm

British  

noun

  1.  ABHcriminal law injury caused by one person to another that interferes with the health or comfort of the victim

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The court heard Sekanjako, who was born in Uganda, had a previous conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm from 2013.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023

The jury returned unanimous verdicts on all but one of the charges, with a single count of actual bodily harm having a 10-to-two majority.

From BBC • May 22, 2023

She was acquitted of causing him actual bodily harm at retrial in September 2022.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023

"The CPS has today informed the court that we will seek a retrial of PC Ellen Bettley-Smith for an assault on Dalian Atkinson occasioning actual bodily harm," CPS head of special crime, Rosemary Ainslie, said.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2021

You have to be constantly alive to the danger of disagreeable annoyance from the pests that abound, or of actual bodily harm from animals of the reptilian order.

From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot

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