Felonious Assault - Law Dictionary Search Results
felonious assault
Matched in: Term felonious assault
assault
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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 Repealed y 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 1.
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Wreck
or another's life from a wreck, see Offences against the (English) Person Act, 1861, s. 17. As to assaulting a magistrate, officer, etc., engaged in preserving a wreck or goods cast on shore, see s. 37 of
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
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.,
Rape
but that he intended to do so at all events, and notwithstanding any resistance on her part. Indecent assaults are often magnified into attempts at rape. In order to come to a conclusion that the conduct of
Abduction
misdemeanour of forcibly stealing or carrying away any person, sometimes known as kidnapping and more accurately described as assault and false imprisonment. Where the person carried away is taken abroad the offence falls within the (English) Habeas
Justifiable homicide
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
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
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