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{{Citation |Title=Mutilation |Text='''Mutilation''' or '''maiming''' (from the Latin: ''mutilus'') is cutting off or causing injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.<ref>Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mutilation" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 99–100.</ref> |Author=Wikipedia |ref=<ref>{{URLwikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutilation|Mutilation|2020-09-12}}</ref>}}
A British Court court (2015) has defined ''mutilation'' as:
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[12] The word “mutilation” is not further elaborated or defined in the statute, so I turn to the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “mutilation” as meaning “the action of mutilating a person or animal; the severing or maiming of a limb or bodily organ”, “mutilate” being defined as meaning “To deprive (a person or animal) of the use of a limb or bodily organ, by dismemberment or otherwise; to cut off or destroy (a limb or organ); to wound severely, inflict violent or disfiguring injury on.”<ref name="bangham2015">{{REFdocument