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assault
assault [Old French assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to 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 of such harm or contact compare battery 2 : the crime of assault accompanied by battery ;specif : sexual assault in this entry called also assault and battery aggravated assault : a criminal assault accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : a criminal assault that is committed with an intent to cause or that causes serious bodily injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : a criminal assault accompanied by the intent to commit or the commission of a felony (as rape) compare simple assault in this entry assault with intent : a criminal assault committed with the intent to commit another specified crime [assault with intent to rob] [assault with intent to kill] civ...
rape
rape raped rap·ing [Latin rapere to seize and take away by force] : to commit rape on rap·er n rap·ist n n : unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception see also statutory rape NOTE: The common-law crime of rape involved a man having carnal knowledge of a woman not his wife through force and against her will, and required at least slight penetration of the penis into the vagina. While some states maintain essentially this definition of rape, most have broadened its scope esp. in terms of the sex of the persons and the nature of the acts involved. Marital status is usually irrelevant. Moreover, the crime is codified under various names, including first degree sexual assault sexual battery unlawful sexual i...
Assault
Assault [fr. salire, Lat., to leap; saillir, assaillir, Fr., to assai]; insultus, Lat.], an attempt to offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon. No words, how provoking so ever they be, will amount to 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 includes an assault, 1 Hawk. P. C. c. lxii., s. 1.The various kinds of assault are successively dealt with and made punishable by ss. 36-47 and ss. 52 and 62 (indecent assaults) of the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. By s. 47 an assault occasioning actual bodily harm is punishable on indictment by penal servitude for not less than three, or imprisonment for not more than two year, and a common assault by imprisonment for not more than one year; but by s. 42 common assaults are summarily tria...
Assault with intent
Assault with intent, means any of the several assaults that are carried out with an additional criminal purpose in mind, such as assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to rob, assault with intent to rape, and assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. There are modern statutory inventions that are often found in State Criminal Codes, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 110....
Aggravated assaults
Aggravated assaults, 'Aggravated' means aggravated in respect of violence, not by reason of indecency, R. v. Baker, (1876) 46 LJ Ex 75; on females or boys under fourteen, see (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 43, which allows two justices, 'if the assault or battery is of such an aggravated nature that it cannot in their opinion be sufficiently punished under the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six months' imprisonment with hard labour or to fine him up to 20l. including costs (the maximum punishment for a common assault being two months' imprisonment, or a fine up to 5l.) and to bind him over to keep the peace. (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (c. 86), s. 39 (2), has increased the fine up to 50l., not including costs.Means the criminal assault accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the intent to commit another crime, or the intent to cause serious bodily har...
sexual harassment
sexual harassment : employment discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at an employee because of his or her sex ;also : the tort of engaging in such discrimination see also hostile environment sexual harassment, quid pro quo sexual harassment NOTE: Sexual harassment has been found by federal courts to violate the protection in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against discrimination in employment. There are also state statutes under which sexual harassment actions may be brought. In order to recover against an employer under a sexual harassment suit, the plaintiff has to show that the harassment affected the employment (as by being severe or pervasive) and that the employer is liable under respondeat superior because of actual or constructive knowledge of the harassment. Strict liability is often imposed for harassment of an employee by a supervisor or for quid pro quo sexual harassment. ...
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, refers to a type of employment discrimination consisting in verbal or physical abuse of a sexual nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1379.Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination projected through unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favours and other verbal or physical conduct with sexual overtones, whether directly or by implication, particularly when submission to or rejection of such a conduct by the female employee was capable of being used for effecting the employment of the female employee and unreasonably interfering with her work performance and had the effect of creating an intimidating or hostile working environment for her, Apparel Export Promotion Council v. A. K. Chopra, AIR 1999 SC 625 (633): (1999) 1 SCC 759....
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 own defence. it was a plea by confession and avoidance, 1 Selw. N.P., 13th Edn. 2. See now PLEADING; STATEMENT OF DEFENCE....
Sexual
Of or pertaining to sex or the sexes distinguishing sex peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes proceeding from or based upon sex as sexual characteristics sexual intercourse connection or commerce sexual desire sexual diseases sexual generation...
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