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C Simple Personal Injuries
Where the quantity of damage which was intended is the
very quantity which eventually ensues, the act may be said
to be adequately intentional with respect to its consequences;
when not so much, inadequately; when more,
more than adequately
Example You intended for instance to strike the porter,
whose leg you have broken. If If your intention was to strike him in the leg in such
manner that he might be obliged to have it cut off, or if
you intended to strike him in the fore-arm in such manner
that he might be obliged to have his fore-arm cut off, and the
case is that the damage he would suffer from the loss of a
leg would not be materially greater or less than what he
would suffer from the loss of a fore-arm, in either of these
cases the act was adequately intentional with regard to
the quality of damage.
If your intention was only to hurt him in the fore-arm
or the leg without depriving him of either, the act
was inadequately intentional: if your intention was to
deprive him of his thigh or the whole of his arm the act
was-
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