LIMBS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LIMBS. Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the 
  unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law. 
  1 Bl. Com. 130. If a man, se defendendo, commit homicide, he will be 
  excused; and if he enter into an apparent contract, under a well-grounded 
  apprehension of losing his life or limbs, he may afterwards avoid it. 1 Bl. 
  130.