Assault - Law Dictionary Search Results

Aggravated assaults

Aggravated assaults, 'Aggravated' means aggravated in respect of violence, not by reason of indecency, R. v. Baker, (1876) 46 LJ

which cause death and that the relevant words must be read ejusdem generis with the words 'defamation and assault' and not with the assault alone, M. Veerappa v. Evelyn Sequeira, AIR 1988 SC 506: (1988) 1 SCC

Trespass

kind, and committed on the person or tangible and corporeal property of the plaintiff. Of actual violence an assault and battery is an instance; of implied, a peaceable but wrongful enter upon the plaintiff's lands, Steph. Plead.,

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Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and

Breach of peace

or distracting noise, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 183. Breach of peace, takes place when either an assault is committed on an individual or public alarm and excitement is caused. Mere annoyance or insult is not

Affray

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

Onset

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

mayhem

Under the Model Penal Code and the codes of the states that follow it, mayhem is encompassed by assault and aggravated assault.

Modesty

354) --the essential ingredients of the offence under s. 354, IPC are as under: (i) that the person assaulted must be a woman; (ii) that the accused must have been used criminal force on her; and (iii)

Justification

a defence of justification is a defence showing the libel to be true, or in an action of assault showing the violence to have been necessary. If in a libel action a defendant pleads justification he must

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