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Contaction

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Contact

A close union or junction of bodies a touching or meeting

contacting

the act of touching physically

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minimum contacts

minimum contacts : the level of a nonresident defendant's connection with or activity in a state that is sufficient under

Contacting party

Contacting party, to a marriage means either of the parties whose marriage is thereby solemnised. [Child Marriage Restraint Act,

Contagious

Communicable by contact by a virus or by a bodily exhalation catching as a contagious disease

Contiguous

In actual contact touching also adjacent near neighboring adjoining

assault

leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear

jurisdiction

adjudicate a cause of action that does not arise out of or is not related to the party's contacts within the territory of that court in per·so·nam jurisdiction [in-pər-sō-nəm-, -per-sō-nÄ m-] : the jurisdiction granted a court

battery

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

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