Legal glossary
“physical abuse”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
PWDVA · s. 3
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
(i) "physical abuse" means any act or conduct which is of such a nature as to cause bodily pain, harm, or danger to life, limb, or health or impair the health or development of the aggrieved person and includes assault, criminal intimidation and criminal force;
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