SICKNES

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

  SICKNESS. By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives 
  it temporarily of the power to fulfill its usual functions. 
       2. Sickness is either such as affects the body generally, or only some 
  parts of it. Of the former class, a fever is an example; of the latter, 
  blindness. When a process has been issued against an individual for his 
  arrest, the sheriff or other officer is authorized, after he has arrested 


  him, if he be so dangerously sick, that to remove him would endanger his 
  life or health, to let him remain where he found him, and to return the 
  facts at large, or simply languidus. (q.v.)