INJURED

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Definition
In legal usage, *injured* describes a person or entity that has suffered a legally cognizable harm — that is, a wrong, loss, damage, or violation of right for which the law may provide a remedy. The term operates primarily as an adjective modifying parties (the *injured party*, the *injured spouse*) and as a threshold qualifier in standing, tort, and constitutional law. The legal concept reaches beyond physical harm. A party may be *injured* in the legal sense through interference with property rights, breach of contract, violation of constitutional or statutory rights, economic loss, or reputational damage — even absent any physical impact. What matters is whether the harm is one the law recognizes as actionable or compensable. In property and eminent domain contexts, *injured* has a specific statutory meaning: property is *injured* when its value, access, or use is diminished by government action or adjacent public works, triggering compensation obligations even where no physical taking occurs. In federal tax law, *injured spouse* is a defined term of art referring to a spouse whose share of a joint tax refund has been offset to satisfy the separate debt of the other spouse. ---
Common Language
Modern common usage (Wiktionary): Suffering from an injury. Historical common usage (Webster's 1913): Not available in provided sources. The ordinary sense of *injured* focuses almost entirely on physical harm — a person hurt in an accident, a body damaged. The legal sense is substantially broader. A plaintiff may be *injured* under the law without any physical harm whatsoever: a creditor whose contractual right is breached, a landowner whose drainage is obstructed, a taxpayer whose refund is wrongly offset. Researchers using *injured* as a search term should expect a far wider documentary universe than the physical-harm intuition suggests. ---
Common Confusion
*Injured* vs. *damaged* vs. *harmed*: These terms are used interchangeably in some sources but carry distinct implications in others. *Damaged* often refers specifically to monetary loss or property diminution. *Harmed* is the broader policy term in constitutional standing doctrine (*injury in fact*). *Injured* in older equity and common law sources typically signals a recognized legal wrong — the Latin *injuria* — which may or may not involve economic loss. Bouvier's cross-reference to *injuria* (Lat.: injury, wrong, the privation or violation of right) underscores that the classical legal sense is about violation of right, not just physical suffering. ---
Why It Matters in Research
*Injured* is a deceptively simple word that functions as a gateway term across multiple legal domains, and researchers can easily undercount relevant sources by treating it as synonymous with physical injury. **Statutory and eminent domain research**: In Pennsylvania and similar jurisdictions, courts applied the term *injured* in statutory compensation provisions to cover property whose access or drainage was obstructed by public works — without any physical taking. Bouvier's cites Pennsylvania cases on this point. Researchers tracing just-compensation doctrine should flag *injured* as a term that expands the taking analysis beyond physical seizure. **Equity and injunction practice**: Historical chancery records use *injured party* to identify who has standing to seek equitable relief. In this context, *injured* is not merely descriptive — it is a legal threshold. Bouvier's places the *injured* entry in close proximity to injunction doctrine, reflecting this connection. **Tax law**: The *injured spouse* doctrine is entirely statutory and procedural, with no connection to physical harm. Researchers moving between tax and tort sources should be alert to this bifurcation; the term means entirely different things in each corpus. **Historical sources**: Pre-20th century legal dictionaries and pleading manuals use *injured* more formally and more narrowly than modern tort vocabulary. A 19th-century pleader asserting that a party was *injured* was often invoking the *injuria* framework — a violation of legal right — rather than describing factual harm. This distinction matters when reading old equity pleadings or statutory construction opinions. ---
Historical Dictionary Support
Bouvier's Law Dictionary does not supply a standalone entry for *injured* as a discrete defined term. Instead, the word appears embedded in entries for related doctrines — most directly in the property compensation context, where Bouvier's notes that obstructing access to property or drainage therefrom falls within statutory provisions requiring compensation for property *injured*. The cited Pennsylvania cases (111 Pa. 854; 124 Pa. 560; 151 Pa. 30) ground this in a specific statutory tradition. The adjacent Bouvier's entry for *INJURIA* provides the conceptual anchor: injury as "the privation or violation of right," citing Blackstone (3 Bl. Com. 2). This classical framing — *injured* as a party whose legal right has been violated — is the wellspring of the term's broad legal reach. Bouvier's does not separately elaborate on physical versus non-physical injury, reflecting that the classical framework subsumed both. What historical dictionaries miss: the modern tax-law meaning of *injured spouse* is entirely absent from 19th-century sources, as it arises from 20th-century federal tax administration. Researchers should not expect historical dictionaries to illuminate that usage. ---
Encyclopedia Cross-Reference
Injured Spouse Allocation — The Law Mind Tax Encyclopedia. Essential for researchers encountering *injured spouse* in federal tax refund offset contexts. ---
Related Terms
Injuria — Injury in fact — Damaged — Aggrieved party — Standing — Tort — Taking (eminent domain) — Injured spouse (tax) — Compensable injury — Wrongful act — Injunction — Party (injured party)
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary • 1928
cess; 2 Edw. Ch. 188; 4 Paige, Ch. 229, 444; 3 Sim. 273. The order granting an injunction is to be construed in the light of the prayer for the same; 81 Ga. 567. Damages for breach of covenant may be decreed in conjunction with relief by in- junction; 160 Pa. 529. A court of equity may impose any terms in its discretion as a condition of granting or continuing an injunction; 120 U. S. 206. The remedy of the party injured by the violation of an injunction by the party en- joined is by an application to the court to punish the party enjoined for his contempt in disobeying the process of the court; Hill. Inj. 178; 78 Hun 154; 61 Fed. Rep. 194. Where an injunction had issued against cutting timber, the agent of the party en- joined who had cut timber in breach of the injunction was held guilty of contempt; 11 Beav. 180. Where trustees of a friendly society who had been enjoined from dis- tributing certain funds, resigned, and their successors, with notice of the injunction, proceeded to make the forbidden distribu- tion, both sets of trustees were held to be in contempt and were committed; 51 L. J. Ch. 414. See 66 L. T. Ch. D. 267. Το render a person amenable to an injunction, it is neither necessary that he be a party to the suit or served with a copy of it, so long as he appears to have had actual notice ; 166 U. 8. 548. Equity will restrain the commission of injuries outside of its territorial jurisdic- tion, by a decree in personam, where it has acquired jurisdiction over the defendants. Such are suits for the specific performance of contracts, for the enforcement of trusts, for relief on the ground of fraud, for set- tling partnership accounts; Pom. Eq. Jur. § 1318. Penn v. Lord Baltimore, 1 Ves. Sen. 144; 100 Mass. 267; 66 Mo. 563;53 Ga. 514; 16 Pet. 25; a defendant may be enjoined from committing waste upon property situated abroad; 32 Fed. Rep. 124. But where the suit is strictly local, the subject-matter is specific property, and the relief such that, if granted, it must act directly upon the subject-matter, and not upon the person of the defendant, the jurisdiction must be exercised in the place where the subject-matter is situated, as a suit to abate a nuisance; Pom. Eq. Jur. § 1318: 2 Black 485. In the United States courts special in- junctions are granted only on notice, but in cases of danger of irreparable injury an order may issue (R. S. § 718) restraining the threatened act till the motion can be heard; and such order may be with or without security. Injunctions shall not be granted to restrain proceedings in the state courts except in bankruptcy proceed- ings; R. S. § 720; nor suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or.collection of any taxes; R. S. $ 3224. Injunction in a state court in cases afterwards removed to a federal court, remain in full force until dissolved or modified; 18 Stat. L. 470. See 34 Fed. Rep. 481; 46 id. 546. Under the new equity rules in Pennsyl- vania evidence on a motion for a prelim- inary injunction is taken in open court. An injunction, when granted, will usually not be modified or dissolved except by the judge who granted it; 35 Fed. Rep. 98. By the federal practice a motion to dis- solve an injunction should always, when practicable, be addressed to the judge who granted it; and, in case of his death, it would seem advisable that two judges should hear the motion to dissolve; 77 Fed. Rep. 783. The sole object of a preliminary in- junction is to preserve the status quo un- til the merits can be heard. The status quo is the last actual peaceable uncontested status which preceded the pending con- troversy, and a wrongdoer cannot shelter himself behind sudden or recently changed status, though made before the chancellor's hand actually reached him; 180 Pa. 572. a As to injunctions in particular cases, see the title of the particular subject to which the remedy is to be applied. In Equity. A writ remedial, issuing by order of a court of equity, (and in some cases by courts of common law in the exercise of equitable jurisdiction), and commanding a defendant to perform some act, or restraining a defendant from the commission or con- tinuance of some act. Wm. Joyce on Injunc- tions, 1, cited by Bispham, Prin. of Eq. 634. See MANDATORY INJUNCTION; PERPETUAL INJUNCTION; PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION;
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary • 1928
Obstructing access property, or the drainage therefrom, is within a statutory provision requiring com- pensation for property injured; 111 Pa. 854; 124 id. 560; 151 id. 30. INJURIA (Lat.). Injury; wrong; the privation or violation of right. 3 Bl. Com. 2.
injuredadj
Wiktionary (English) • 2026
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Suffering from an injury
injuredverb
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simple past and past participle of injure

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