Injury, oddly enough, to the person. Broken bones are a personal injury, but the concept is wide enough to encompass depression and anxiety (see PsychiatricInjury). Personal injury accounts for such a large volume of litigation that it can almost be seen as a branch of law in its own right -- it even has its own specialist law reports. However, the principles of personal injury are derived from the ordinary law of negligence.
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