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Schoolmaster. To an action of trespass for an assault and battery the defendant pleaded that he was the headmaster of a school or college, of which the plaintiff was a pupil, and that the plaintiff combined with other pupils for purposes subversive of the discipline of the school, and the plea was held good: see Fitzgerald v. Northcote, (1865) 4 F&F 656. As to the extent of the powers of a schoolmaster in this respect, see Cleary v. Booth, (1893) 1 QB 465. As to the power of an assistant teacher in a public elementary school to administer corporal punishment, see Mansell v. Griffin, (1908) 1 KB 160 (947). As to the dismissal of a schoolmaster or mistress of a public elementary school, see Smith v. Macnally, (1912) 1 Ch 816; Meyers v. Humell, (1912) 2 Ch 256; Mitchell v. East Sussex C.C., (1914) 109 LT 778; Price v. Rhondda U.D.C., (1923) 2 Ch 372....
Battery
Battery [batterie, Fr., fr battre, to beat], beating and wounding. This, in law, includes every touching or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes, in an angry, revengeful, rude, insolent, or hostile manner. It is a good defence to prove that the alleged battery happened by misadventure, or that it was merely an amicable contest, or that it was the correcting of a child by its parent, or the punishment of a criminal by the proper officer, or that the prosecutor assaulted or beat the defendant first, and that the defendant committed the alleged battery merely in his own defence as to the criminal proceedings for battery, see (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), ss. 42, 43. See ASSAULT.Battery, includes even the slightest force, no actual harm need result, it is actionable per se, Kenlin v. Gardiner, (1967) 2 QB 510; Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner, (1969) 1 QB 439; Freeman v. Home Office, (1984) QB 524.Means a crime and...
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