BRUISE

In medical jurisprudence. A contusion; an injury upon the flesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument, without solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin. Shadock v. Road Co., 79 Mich. 7, 44 N. W. 158; State v. Owen, 5 N. C. 462, 4 Am. Dec. 671. BRUKBARN, In old Swedish law. The, child of a woman conceiving after a rave,. which was made legitimate. Literally, thll' child of a struggle. Burrill. [s. 160]