See also Ν. N. As an abbreviation, ordinarily stands for new, non, northern, note: N. A. Non allocatur, it is not allowed. 3. To render imperfect - which is something less than to "destroy:" as, to mutilate See ALLOCATUR. a will. The courts speak of "records mutilated by erasures" and "by corrupt interlineations." Purposely taking from a will the signature of the testator deprives it of an essential part, and makes it so imperfect that it loses its legal force. The manner in which that is effected is not of controlling importance. Worrying sheep does not imply tearing them with the teeth: for a dog to pursue and bark at them is worrying them.¹ In a statute giving the owner of domestic animals, such as fowls, worried by a dog, the right to kill the dog, "worry" means to run after, chase, bark at.2 Within the meaning of 9 Geo. IV (1829), c. 21, s. 12, an injury to the person by which the skin is broken whole skin, not the cuticle merely.2 the Breaking a limb was not, then, a wounding; nor was biting off a finger, or the nose; nor was throwing acid in the face - because, in such cases, no instru ment inflicting at least a skin wound was used. Statute of 24 and 25 Vict. (1861), c. 97, s. 47, makes it an offense to kill, maim, or wound any cattle. "Wound" is distinguishable from "maim," which implies a permanent injury, whereas a wound is any mutilation or laceration which breaks the continuity of the outer skin. The injury may be as great when One room used as a chapel does not reserve the produced by manual power as by an instrument, whole building "for religious worship." & A Christmas-tree festival for Sunday scholars at a school-house is not an assembly for "religious worship." Camp-meeting grounds belonging to an association deriving profit therefrom are not to be exempt from taxation as a "place of worship."" "Religious worship" has no technical meaning, in a legal sense. Whether a temperance camp-meeting is "a public assembly convened for the purpose of religious worship" is a question of fact.s Receiving compulsory prices for admission to a camp-meeting on Sunday is worldly employment or business, and not within the exception of "works of necessity and charity." A prosecution for disturbing an assemblage for religious worship will not be sustained by proof that the meeting was for business purposes, though opened with religious exercises. 10 A building for "religious purposes" is exempt from taxation although used for educational purposes, so long as the use is merely incidental or occasional, or, if habitual, is purely permissive and voluntary and does not interfere with the use for religious purposes, there being no alienation (as, e. g., by lease) of the building in whole or in part for educational uses. 1 Campbell v. Brown, 1 Grant, 83 (1854). though in the former case it is not evidence of so much malice. In many cases there is great difficulty in determining what constitutes a wound. A scratch on the face, by rupturing the cuticle only, without separating the whole skin, is not a wound.5 The words "mortal wound," in an indictment for murder by felonious wounding, are superfluous when the indictment alleges a wounding which produces death. Wounding. As an injury to the limbs or body, consists in giving another some dangerous hurt; an aggravated species of battery. If death ensues from a wound given in malice, not in its nature fatal, but which, being neglected or improperly treated, causes death, the assailant may be held guilty of murder, unless it clearly appears that the neglect or treatment was the sole cause of the death. See MAYHEM; STAB. Saint Mary's Church v. Tripp, 14 R. L. 300 (1883), Durfee, C. J. Moriarty v. Brooks, 25 E. C. L. 598 (1834); Rex v. Wood, 19 id. 564 (1830); Regina v. M'Loughlin, 34 id. 561 (1838). 3 Rex v. Stevens, 1 Moody, C. C. 409 (1834); Rex v. 2 Marshall v. Blackshire, 44 Iowa, 478 (1876), Seevers, Murrow, ib. 456 (1835); Rex v. Harris, 32 E. C. L. 700 Chief Justice. (1836). See these cases explained, 11 Cox, Cr. C. 127, infra. Martin v. State, 6 Baxt. 234 (Tenn., 1873). Gass' Appeal, 73 Pa. 45 (1873). St. Joseph's Church v. Assessors, 12 R. I. 19 (1878). burn, C. J.: s. c., L. R., 1 С. С. 115. Layne v. State, 4 Lea, 200 (1879). Summit Grove Meeting Association v. School DisShaw, C. J.; State v. Leonard, 22 Mo. 450 (1856). trict of New Freedom, 12 W. N. C. 103 (Pa., 1882). • State v. Norris, 59 N. H. 536 (1880). 4 Regina v. Bullock, 11 Cox, Cr. C. 127 (1868), CockCommonwealth v. Gallagher, 6 Metc. 568 (1842), Brown v. State, 18 Fla. 476 (1881), cases, Randall, C. J.; People v. Steventon, 9 Cal. 275 (1858); Common73 Bl. Com. 121; 4 id. 216; 2 East, P. С. 1076. • Crum v. State, 64 Miss. 4 (1886), cases, Cooper, C. J.: 26 Am. Law Reg. 368 (1887); ib. 370-71, cases. • Commonwealth v. Weidner, 4 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 437 wealth v. Macloon, 101 Mass. 23 (1869). (1888): Act 22 April, 1794. 10 Wood v. State, 11 Tex. Ар. 318 (1882). Contra, Hollingsworth v. State, 5 Sneed, 518 (Tenn., 1858). X