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• dangerous weapon — dangerous weap·on n: an object that when used as an instrument of offense is capable of causing serious bodily injury compare deadly weapon Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• dangerous weapon — One dangerous to life; one by the use of which a serious or fatal wound or injury may probably or possibly be inflicted. In context of criminal possession of a weapon can be any article which, in circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be …   Black's law dictionary

• dangerous weapon — One dangerous to life; one by the use of which a serious or fatal wound or injury may probably or possibly be inflicted. In context of criminal possession of a weapon can be any article which, in circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be …   Black's law dictionary

• dangerous weapon — An instrument which, when used in the ordinary manner contemplated by its design and construction, will, or is likely to, cause death or great bodily harm. Barboursville ex rel. Bates v Taylor, 115 W Va 4, 174 SE 485, 92 ALR 1093. Whether an… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• dangerous — dan·ger·ous adj 1: creating a risk of bodily injury a dangerous condition of a public building 2: able or likely to inflict esp. serious bodily injury a dangerous criminal with no regard for human life a dangerous animal; also: deadly …   Law dictionary

• weapon — index bomb, cudgel, gun Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 weapon …   Law dictionary

• dangerous — dangerous, hazardous, precarious, perilous, risky all mean attended by or involving the possibility of loss, evil, injury, harm; however, they are frequently not freely interchangeable in usage. Dangerous applies to persons, things, or situations …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• dangerous condition — I noun crisis, dangerous situation, emergency, endangerment, hazard, imperilment, jeopardy, menace, ominousness, peril, pitfall, precariousness, predicament, razor s edge, threat, unhealthy situation associated concepts: dangerous drugs,… …   Law dictionary

• dangerous instrumentality — Anything which has the inherent capacity to place people in peril, either in itself (e.g. dynamite), or by a careless use of it (e.g. boat). Green v. Ross, D.C.Fla., 338 F.Supp. 365, 367. Due care must be exercised in using to avoid injury to… …   Black's law dictionary

• dangerous instrumentality — Anything which has the inherent capacity to place people in peril, either in itself (e.g. dynamite), or by a careless use of it (e.g. boat). Green v. Ross, D.C.Fla., 338 F.Supp. 365, 367. Due care must be exercised in using to avoid injury to… …   Black's law dictionary

• weapon — An instrument of offensive or defensive combat, or anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, threatening, or injuring a person. The term is chiefly used, in law, in the statutes prohibiting the carrying or using of… …   Black's law dictionary