Keeping safe from harm; avoiding Injury, destruction, or decay. This term always presupposes a real or existing danger. See Grihble v. wilson, 101 Tenn. 612, 49 S. W. 730; Neuendorff v. Dur-yea, 52 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 260
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
