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assault with intent

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assault and battery

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aggravated assault

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Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:-(a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or carnally know her or to cause her to be married or carnally known. (b) Where any person fradulently allures, takes away or detains with like intent such a woman under 21 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. (c) Where any person by force takes away or detains any woman being of age with like intent (Ib. s. 54). It is a misdemeanour:-(a) Where any person takes away an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having lawful charge of her (Ib. s. 55). A bona fid...

Actual bodily harm

Actual bodily harm. 'An assault occasioning actual bodily harm' is an offence within s. 47 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (English). On an indictment for an assault occasioning actual bodily harm the accused may be convicted of a common assault, R. v. Oliver, (1860) 30 LJMC 12. A husband, who, whilst suffering from venereal disease, had marital intercourse with his wife and thereby infected her, cannot be convicted under this section, R. v. Clarence, (1888) 22 QBD 23. The expression is also used in the Dangerous Performances Acts, 1879 and 1897. See also BODILY HARM....

Aggravated assaults

Aggravated assaults, 'Aggravated' means aggravated in respect of violence, not by reason of indecency, R. v. Baker, (1876) 46 LJ Ex 75; on females or boys under fourteen, see (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 43, which allows two justices, 'if the assault or battery is of such an aggravated nature that it cannot in their opinion be sufficiently punished under the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six months' imprisonment with hard labour or to fine him up to 20l. including costs (the maximum punishment for a common assault being two months' imprisonment, or a fine up to 5l.) and to bind him over to keep the peace. (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (c. 86), s. 39 (2), has increased the fine up to 50l., not including costs.Means the criminal assault accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the intent to commit another crime, or the intent to cause serious bodily har...

mayhem

mayhem [Anglo-French mahaim mahain, literally, mutilation, from Old French mahain, from mahaignier to injure, mutilate] : willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of another's body ;also : the crime of engaging in mayhem NOTE: Under the Model Penal Code and the codes of the states that follow it, mayhem is encompassed by assault and aggravated assault. ...

Onset

A rushing or setting upon an attack an assault a storming especially the assault of an army...

Affray

Affray [fr. effrayer, Fr. to affright], a skirmish or fighting between two or more persons; there must be a stroke given or offered, or a weapon drawn, otherwise it is not an affray. It is a public offence, and is called because it affrights persons. It differs from an assault in that it is a wrong to the public, while an assault is of a private nature, 1 Hawk. P. C. 154...

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