Civil Assault - Law Dictionary Search Results

Jay Laxmi Salt Works (P) Ltd. v. State of Gujarat, (1994) 4 SCC 1 (9). It means a civil wrong which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust. [Limitation Act, … 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

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battery

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 … 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

Justifiable homicide

Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) … and by the (English) Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5). (g) Where the prisoners in a gaol assault the galore or officer, and he in his defence kills any of them; it is justifiable for the

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., … popular speech, it is limited to one particular kind of trespass in the second sense - viz. the tort of trespass to land, R.F.V. Hewton, Salmond on the Law of Torts 4 (17th Edn., 1977). It implies

Piracy

subject. Formerly this offence was only cognizable by the Admiralty Courts, which proceed by the rules of the civil law, but it being inconsistent with the liberties of the nation that any man's life should be taken … 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

Damages

A plurality of variants stemming out of a core concept is seen in such words as actual damages, civil damages, compensatory damages, consequential damages, contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable … libel, or the mode in which the subject-matter of the action arose, e.g., time and place of an assault or trespass, or the peculiar nature of the wrong or the distress of mind produced in the plaintiff,

intent

illegal act without the desire for further consequences or a precise result [there was a general intent to assault but not to kill] specific intent : intent to perform an illegal act with the knowledge or purpose … cause another harm when the harm is accidentally inflicted on an unintended victim 2 : a doctrine in tort and criminal law: a wrongdoer who causes harm to a person other than the one intended may nevertheless

Battery

Police Commissioner, (1969) 1 QB 439; Freeman v. Home Office, (1984) QB 524. Means a crime and a tort involving the actual, intended (or negligent) and direct use of unlawful physical force on a person without his … 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

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