 | Nathan Dane - 1824 - 736 էջ
...1 Mod. 3, 168, 169. "An assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another, as by striking at him, with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him, at such distance to which the gun will carry ; or pointing a pitch-fork... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 էջ
...itself, what is implied by the term violence in its least violent nature and degree. " An assault is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at another with a stick or other weapon, or without a weapon, though the party striking misses his aim.... | |
 | Daniel Davis - 1828 - 512 էջ
...ASSAULTS AND BATTERIES. An assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a coporal hurt to another ; as by striking at him with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him, at a distance to which the gun will carry ; or pointing a pitchfork at... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1879 - 634 էջ
...and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another ; as by striking at him, with or without a weapon. Assault does not always necessarily imply a hitting...; because, in trespass for assault and battery, a man may be found guilty of the assault, and acquitted of the battery. But every battery includes an... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 666 էջ
...forre and violence, to do a corporeal hurt 10 another; as by striking at him, with or without a weapon. Assault does not always necessarily imply a hitting...: because, in trespass for assault and battery, a man may be found guilty of the assault, and acquitted of the battery. But every battery includes an... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1829 - 638 էջ
...(assultus, from the Fr. asslayer) ; an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another; as by striking at him, with or without a weapon. Assault does not nlways necessarily imply a hitting or blow ; because, in trespass for assault and... | |
 | George Crabb - 1830 - 384 էջ
...ASSASSINATION (in Law). The murdering a person for hire. ASSAULT (in Law). The offering or attempting, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to...another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon, as distinguished from a battery, which is any injury actually done to a person. ASSAY. A mode of trying... | |
 | George Crabb - 1831 - 426 էջ
...ASSASSINATION (in Law.) The murdering a person for hire. ASSAULT (in Law.) The offering or attempting, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at Mm with or without a weapon, as distinguished from a battery, which is any injury actually done to... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1832 - 716 էջ
...separate offence of attempt to commit it. The rule is the same in England. An assault with them is the attempt or offer with force and -violence to do a...corporal hurt to another, as by striking at him with a stick or other weapon, or without a weapon, though the party striking misses his aim. So drawing... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 854 էջ
...with death even the attempt to assassinate. Scotch Diet. ASSAULT, Assaltus, from the Fr. Assayler.~] An attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...; as by striking at him, with or without a weapon. But no words whatsoever, be they ever so provoking, can amount to an assault, notwithstanding the many... | |
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It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another... 
