 | Sir Andrew Reed - 1895 - 528 էջ
...is being watched.] Assault, — At gammon law aji_ assault is an attempt or offer with force an <T 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.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Civil Service Commission - 1895 - 40 էջ
...an insurance company. Assault. — Any wilful or unlawful attempt, with force, to do a bodily injury to another ; as by striking at him with or without a weapon. Battery. — Any wilful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Every battery... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep - 1896 - 916 էջ
...499. CHAPTER THE TENTH. OP COMMON AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS. SEC I. Of Common Assaults.1 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.... | |
 | Albert William Chaster - 1899 - 332 էջ
...are liable to attachment, this remedy is not open against them.11 Assault and Battery. An assault is an attempt or offer with force and violence to do...another as by striking at him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him at such a distance as the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork at him... | |
 | 1898 - 610 էջ
...force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt tu 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 aesault, and acquitted of the battery. But every battery includes an... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1900 - 702 էջ
...of one's person or property. 198. The Act Constituting an Assault. "An assault," says Hawkins, "is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...; as, by striking at him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him at such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork... | |
 | 1900 - 460 էջ
...the definition of assault: 1 Hawkins, ch. 62, § 1: "An assault is an attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at Mm at such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork at... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - 1900 - 770 էջ
...St. Paul, and selling it in Chicago. Arrear. That which Is behind In payment. Assault and Battery. An attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another is an assault; an injury actually clone to the person of another in an angry, revengeful, or insolent... | |
 | Albert Poole Jacobs, Henry Allen Chaney - 1889 - 1162 էջ
...(a), 4. Exemplary damages, see DAMAGES, III. I. WHAT CONSTITUTES ASSAULT. 1. An assault involves every attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another; and it may be entirely lawful as either excusable or justifiable: Drew v. Comstock, 57 M. 176. 2. A... | |
 | Charles Annandale, Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1901 - 532 էջ
...the Druses and other small existing tribes their descendants are still to be found. Assault', in law, an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon. If a person lift up or stretch forth his arm and offer to strike another, or menace any one witli any... | |
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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... 
