 | Dueling - 1846 - 110 pages
...the Jury, in the case of Thomas O. Selfridge, (Selfridge's trial, page 6,) says, that " An assault is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at him, or even by holding up the fist at him in a threatening or insulting manner, or with such other circumstances... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...is an action of trespass vi et armis, to recover damages for an injury to the person. A n assault is an attempt or offer with force and violence to do...another; as by striking at him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him at such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork... | |
 | George Colwell Oke - Justices of the peace - 1850 - 636 pages
...— Jurisdiction on Question of Title — accompanied 6y aggravating Circumstances ] An assault is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...another ; as by striking at him with or without a weapon j or throwing a stone or riding at him ( Martin v. Shoppee, 3 Car. & P. 373) ; or striking a horse... | |
 | Charles Sprengel Greaves - Criminal law - 1851 - 164 pages
...exposure, amounting to a mere solicitation of chastity, would hardly amount to an assault, which means "an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another," "accompanied with such circumstances as denote at the time an intention, coupled with a present ability,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 818 pages
...to do great bodily harm less than murder" is a statutory offense and involves an assault defined as an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, coupled with an intent to do great bodily harm less than murder; the harm or injury intended being... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 798 pages
...admissible. 2. An assault may be entirely lawful, as either excusable or justifiable, and it involves every attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another. Drew v. C'oinstock, 57 Mich. 181. 3. Upon the termination of a lease the lessor is entitled in law... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...assault, which Finch describes to be an unlawful setting upon one's person. Hawkins defines an assault as an attempt or offer, with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another; as by striking at another with a stick or other weapon, or without a weapon, though the party striking misses his aim.... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1855 - 800 pages
...exposure amounting to a mere solicitation of chastity, wonld barely amount to an assault, whicLi means ' an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another,' ' accompanied with such circumstances as denote at the time an intention, coupled with a present ability,... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...definition of an assault. 1 Hawkins, chap. 62, § 1. "An assault is an attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him at such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...definition of an assault. 1 Hawkins, chap. 62, 1 1. " An assault is an attempt or offer, with force or n only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by national punishm withont a weapon, or presenting a gun at him at such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing... | |
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It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another... 
