Assault and battery
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battery · assault · assault and battery · Assault · a battery · actions for battery · an assault · touching in anger
in the texts
The Law of Torts
The torts of assault (apprehension of imminent contact) and battery (actual unlawful contact), including intent, consent, and related criminal-law definitions.
“Assault and Battery,” A;
564 (throwing water at a person is assault;
“no words or singing are equivalent to an assault,” per Holroyd J.
Against Conon
The legal wrong of physical attack for which the plaintiff seeks redress.
Again, there are actions for battery;
for he committed both assault and highway robbery.
) Now take the statutes, that concerning assault and that concerning highway robbers.