LESION

Fr. Damage; injury; detri• ment. Kelham. A term of the Scotch law. In the civil law. The injury suffered by one who does not receive a full equivalent for. what he gives in a commutative contract. Civil Code La. art. 1860. Inequality in con• tracts. Poth. Obi., no. 83. · In medical jurisprudence, Any change in the structure of an organ due t.o injury or disease, whether apparent or diagnosed as the cause of a functional irregularity or disturbance. [s. 717]