Beating - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: beatingBeat
To strike repeatedly to lay repeated blows upon as to beat ones breast to beat iron so as to shape it to beat grain in order to force out the seeds to beat eggs and sugar to beat a drum...
dead beat
a loafer sponger or swindler especially one who does not pay his debts Same as Beat n 7...
Dry beat
To beat severely...
Gold beating
The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves by beating with a hammer...
Purification beat' mari' virginis
Purification beat' mari' virginis, the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which falls on the second day of February in every year....
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...
battery
battery [Old French batterie beating, from battre to beat, from Latin battuere] : the crime or tort of intentionally or recklessly causing offensive physical contact or bodily harm (as by striking or by administering a poison or drug) that is not consented to by the victim compare assault aggravated battery : criminal battery that is accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : criminal battery that causes or is intended to cause serious bodily injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : criminal battery committed on a protected person (as a minor or a police officer) compare simple battery in this entry NOTE: Aggravated battery is usually classified as a felony. sex·u·al battery : intentional and offensive sexual contact and esp. sexual intercourse with a person who has not given or (as in the case of a child) is incapable of giving consent ;broadly : forced or coerced contact with the sexual parts of either the victim or the perpetrator see also rape NOTE:...
Deadbeat
Making a beat without recoil giving indications by a single beat or excursion said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation...
Dicrotism
A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart...
Drumming
The act of beating upon or as if upon a drum also the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring by beating his wings upon his sides...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial