Different legal codes give different weight to a variety of factors in penalising the offence: the number of bodies the victim has remaining and the share of mind which has thus been taken; the brutality of the conditions in which the disconnected self is held; the motivation behind the assault; the difficulty of reintegrating the lost fragment. In one case, at least, the self, once detached from the wetjacker, spent so long in a legal limbo that it developed a unique identity and sued—successfully—to avoid returning to its original. This process is not unknown when units are accidentally separated from the whole, and is called calving, after the same phenomenon in glaciers. A calf is generally regarded as the equivalent of a child, although some see it as a belated twin.