Assault - Law Dictionary Search Results
Conventry Act (English)
a capital felony to disable with intent to disfigure,so called because it was passed in consequence of an assault upon Sir John Coventry. Repealed y 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 1.
Personal action
been used in a narrower sense to express an action for injury to the person, as for slander, assault, injury by accident, as distinguished from injury to property. It is in this sense that it is said
Piracy
immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, shall assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel, or
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Prizefighting
held that the mere presence of persons at a prizefight was not enough to sustain a conviction for assault), and railway companies providing trains for any prizefights are liable to heavy penalties under the (English) Regulation of
Provocation
subside, and the provocation must be of a kind which would deprive an ordinary man of self-control. See ASSAULT.
Schoolmaster
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
Squibs
Shepherd, (1773) 2 Wm Bl 892, 1 Sm LC, it was held that an action of trespass and assault lay against the original thrower of a squib, which after having been thrown about in self-defence by two
Vexatious indictments
& 31 Vict. c. 35, ss. 1, 2 (repealed), that no bill of indictment for perjury, conspiracy, indecent assault or certain other misdemeanours therein named, should be presented to a grand jury, unless the prosecutor had been
Viol
Viol [old law, Fr.], rape, indecent assault, Barr. on Stat. 139.
Criminal Law
Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law'; Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law; Russell on Crimes; and see titles ARSON, ASSAULT, BURGLARY, EMBEZZLE-MENT, FALSE PRETENCES, LARCENY, MAN-SLAUGHTER, MURDER, RAPE, TREASON, and WOUNDING. The body of law defining offenses against
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