Definition of Assault And Battery in English :

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Assault And Battery meaning in English

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Assault And Battery

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Noun

1. assault and battery, battery

an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact

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Assault And Battery

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noun
criminal law
a threat of attack to another person followed by actual attack, which need amount only to touching with hostile intent

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Assault And Battery

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Law
the carrying out of threatened physical harm or violence; an unlawful beating

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Assault And Battery

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n.
A criminal act involving both a threat of violence and actual physical contact with the victim.

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