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Assault
an assault. Assault does not always necessarily imply a hitting or blow; because, in trespass for assault and battery, a person may be found guilty of the assault, but not guilty of the battery. But battery always
assault
the present ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear of such harm or contact compare battery 2 : the crime of assault accompanied by battery ;specif : sexual assault in this entry called also
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
cum persona. A personal action dies with the person, i.e., the right to sue is gone. 'As if battery be done to a man, if he who did the battery or the other die, the action is
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Frigate
vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line Frigates from about 1750 to 1850 had one full battery deck and often a spar deck with a lighter battery They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns
Electro tint
electricity A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery so that in electro typing the parts not covered by the varnish etc receive a deposition of metal
Trespass
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., 7th Edn.,
Son assault demesne
Son assault demesne, a justification in an action of assault and battery, on the ground that the plaintiff made the first assault, and what the defendant did was in his
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 plaintiff was
Payment of Money into Court
Pleading). By the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction) might pay into Court a sum of money
Molliter manus imposuit
of church (for instance), and prevent his disturbing the congregation; and if sued for this and the like battery, he may set forth the whole case and state that he laid hands upon him gently (molliter manus
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