LIMBS. Those members of a man which may be useful to him in flight, and the
unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law.
1 Bl. Com. 130. If a man, se defendendo, commit homicide, he will be
excused; and if he enter into an apparent contract, under a well-grounded
apprehension of losing his life or limbs, he may afterwards avoid it. 1 Bl.
130.