Assault and battery
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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.
the words of the Act are “same cause,” but they are equivalent to “same assault” in the earlier Act, 16 & 17 Vict.
No assault is committed by presenting a gun at a man who cannot see it, any more than by forming an intention to shoot at him.
Under the old system of pleading this was not a matter of special justification, but evidence under the general issue, an assault by consent being a contradiction in terms:
Against Conon
The legal wrong of physical attack for which the plaintiff seeks redress.
Why, for my part, I am amazed if they have discovered any excuse or pretext which will make it possible in your court for any man, if convicted of assault and battery, to escape punishment.
) Now take the statutes, that concerning assault and that concerning highway robbers.
Is it to the advantage of each one of you that a man be permitted to indulge in battery and outrage, or that he be not permitted?