 | Frank Moore - Orators - 1858 - 658 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... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...violence, to do a corporal injury to another. Wharton's Amer. Crim. Law, 311. 1 Hill's (NY) R. 351. — 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, <fcc. Hawk. P. C. b. 1, ch. 62, s. 1, 2. Bac. Abr. Assault, A. — An attempt... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Judges - 1859 - 514 pages
...sufficient to free the party killing, with a dangerous weapon, from the guilt of murder. An assault is any 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... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 618 pages
...definition of .an assault 1 Hawkins, chap. 62, § 1. "An assault is an attempt or offer, with force or and began to import as formerly. Far or presenting a gun at him at such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - History - 1861 - 500 pages
...sufficient to free the party killing, with a dangerous weapon, from the guilt of murder. An assault is any 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... | |
 | William Bell - Law - 1861 - 888 pages
...Hume, vol. ip 180, 288 ; Ersk. B. iv. t. 4, § 45 ; Swint. Abridg. voce Treason, § 75. Assault ; is an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another. It does not necessarily imply an injury actually done ; it is sufficient if such was intended, and... | |
 | Québec (Province), Andrew Robertson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 548 pages
...constitute such an assault as will justify moderate and reasonable violence in self-defence, there must be an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another. — The Toronto — Collinton. Stuart's Ad. Rep., p. 170. Held, In an action against the captain of... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1865 - 806 pages
...this volume, tit. Battery. * 1. Vol. I. v< 988. Hawkins defines thus : " It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to...another: as, by striking at him with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him at eucit distance to which the gun will carry ; or pointing a pitehfork... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1867 - 316 pages
...opinion of the Court was delivered by WARDLAW, J. The commonly-received definition of an assault is " an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another," when there was ability to complete the attempt or offer by a battery. The force and vioColumbia, April... | |
 | Frederic Kidder - Boston Massacre, 1770 - 1870 - 314 pages
...definition of an assault. 1 Hawkins, chap. Ixii, § 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... | |
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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... 
