Cruelty definition

Cruelty means conduct of such a character as to cause danger or injury to bodily or mental health or to give rise to a reasonable apprehension of such danger;
Cruelty means treating the animals in any manner specified in clauses (a) to (o) of Sub -Section 11 of the prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, 1960 (59 of 1960)];
Cruelty. "abuse," and "neglect" means every act, omission, or neglect whereby unreasonable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted;

Examples of Cruelty in a sentence

  • Alien Who Has Been Declared a Battered Alien or Alien Subjected to Extreme Cruelty- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service petition and supporting documentation b.

  • Cruelty to a resident or indifference to the needs which are essential to the general well-being and health.

  • Offences relating to the abuse of girls under the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1926 (Cap.

  • Mr Brown to move— That leave be given to bring in a bill for an Act to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 to repeal prohibitions on the use and operation of game parks.

  • Sharon Dolovich, Cruelty, Prison Conditions, and the Eighth Amendment, 84 N.Y.U. L.


More Definitions of Cruelty

Cruelty or "torture" means every act, omission or neglect whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable pain, suffering physically torturing, mutilating or causing the prolonged impairment of an animals’ health or death, that does not rise to the level of animal abuse punishable by North Dakota Century Code [JC1]shall be caused or permitted.
Cruelty means an act or omission by which unjustifiable physical pain,
Cruelty means an act or a failure to act which causes an animal to suffer, physically or mentally, or causes an animal to suffer from pain, illness, infirm, or may cause death to such animal, and shall include a use of a disabled, ill, old, or pregnant animal for any advantages, a use of animal for sexual abuse, a use of animal to overwork or to perform an inappropriate work because such animal is ill, old, or underage.
Cruelty. This term shall mean willfully or negligently; torturing or seriously overworking an animal; failing to provide necessary food, water, care or shelter for an animal; failing to seek medical advice when an animal is in obvious pain or distress; allowing an ill, diseased, maimed, aged, or injured animal to suffer unnecessary pain; abandoning an animal in his/her custody; transporting or confining an animal in a cruel manner; killing, injuring or administering poison to an animal without legal authority; or causing a dog to fight with another dog.
Cruelty means such conduct on the part of the defendant to his wife or any child or children of the defendant, including—
Cruelty means every act or failure to act whereby unjustifiable physical pain or suffering is caused or permitted.
Cruelty means a conscious action or inaction that may endanger the life of or cause serious health consequences to a dog.