Legal Definitions

Statutory Definition – Section 2 CCC

“bodily harm” means any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature;

These injuries will likely demand  treatment by a physician.

“That which impairs or injures the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of a person or thing.” – Black’s Law Dictionary

Disfigurement must be more than temporary marring of appearance

• R. v Innes (1972) Court of Appeal – BC –  Not currently  available online

To inflict upon a person any injury which deprives him of the use of any limb or member of his body, or renders him lame or defective in bodily vigour.” – Black’s Law Dictionary

Statutory Definition – Section 2 CCC

 “peace officer” includes:

(a) a mayor, warden, reeve, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff’s officer and justice of the peace,

(b) a member of the Correctional Service of Canada who is designated as a peace officer pursuant to Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, and a warden, deputy warden, instructor, keeper, jailer, guard and any other officer or permanent employee of a prison other than a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act,

(c) a police officer, police constable, bailiff, constable, or other person employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace or for the service or execution of civil process,

(c.1) a designated officer as defined in section 2 of the Integrated Cross-border Law Enforcement Operations Act, when

(i) participating in an integrated cross-border operation, as defined in section 2 of that Act, or

(ii) engaging in an activity incidental to such an operation, including travel for the purpose of participating in the operation and appearances in court arising from the operation,

(d) an officer within the meaning of the Customs Act, the Excise Act or the Excise Act, 2001, or a person having the powers of such an officer, when performing any duty in the administration of any of those Acts,

(d.1) an officer authorized under subsection 138(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,

(e) a person designated as a fishery guardian under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act and a person designated as a fishery officer under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act or the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act,

(f) the pilot in command of an aircraft

(i) registered in Canada under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act, or

(ii) leased without crew and operated by a person who is qualified under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act to be registered as owner of an aircraft registered in Canada under those regulations,

while the aircraft is in flight, and

(g) officers and non-commissioned members of the Canadian Forces who are

(i) appointed for the purposes of section 156 of the National Defence Act, or

(ii) employed on duties that the Governor in Council, in regulations made under the National Defence Act for the purposes of this paragraph, has prescribed to be of such a kind as to necessitate that the officers and non-commissioned members performing them have the powers of peace officers;

Statutory Definition – Section 25.1(1) CCC

“public officer” means a peace officer, or a public officer who has the powers of a peace officer under an Act of Parliament

Statutory Definition – Section 2 CCC

“weapon” means any thing used, designed to be used or intended for use

(a) in causing death or injury to any person, or
(b) for the purpose of threatening or intimidating any person

and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes a firearm and, for the purposes of sections 88, 267 and 272, any thing used, designed to be used or intended for use in binding or tying up a person against their will;

An injury to the body of a person or animal, especially one caused by violence, by which the continuity of the covering, as skin, mucous membrane or conjunctiva is broken.” – Black’s Law Dictionary

There must be breaking of the skin

• R. v Hostetter (1902) Not currently available online
• R. v Littletent (1985) Court of Appeal  – Alberta  – Available on CanLII