 | John Wilder May - Criminal law - 1881 - 280 pages
...meets unanimous acceptance. The more generally received definition is that of Hawkins,4 to wit : " An attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another." We have already seen5 that to constitute an attempt there must be some overt act in part execution... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - Criminal law - 1882 - 642 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, as by striking him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him, at such a distance to which the gun will... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - Criminal law - 1882 - 638 pages
...express, and that his belief would not affect his criminality, (z) Assault and battery. — An assault is an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, and a battery, which is the attempt executed, includes an assault, (a) An assault is described as a... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Criminal law - 1882 - 244 pages
...тэге proper!}' to the question of evidence. ASSAULT AND BATTERY. ASSAULT DEFINED. — An assault is: "An attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another.' (Hawkins.) "Any unlawful physical force, partly or fully put in motion, creating a reasonable apprehension... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 812 pages
...A complaint against a person to compel him to find sureties to keep the peace. Assault and Battery. An attempt or offer, with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another is an assault an injury actually done uO the person of another in an angry, revengeful, or insolent... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...— Jacob. Assault [fr. salire, Lat., to leap ; saillir, nssailler, Fr., to assail ; insultus, Lat.], an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...imply a hitting or blow ; because in trespass for assaiilt and battery, a person may be found guilty of the assault, but not guilty of the battery. But... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 926 pages
...— Jacob. Assault [fr. satire, Lat., to leap ; sailler, assailler, Fr., to assail ; insultus, Lat.], an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...always necessarily imply a hitting or blow ; because in trespaas for assault and battery, a person may be found guilty of the assault, but not guilty of the... | |
 | Nova Scotia. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 612 pages
...an assault on B ? This must Ve answered, as I think, in the negative. Hau'kins defines an assault as an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, with or without a weapon, though the party striking misses his aim, — so drawing a sword, or any... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 642 pages
...are believed to linger still among them. ASSAULT and BATTERY. An assault has been commonly defined " an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another." Thus presenting a gun at a person within the distance to which it will carry, throwing a stone or other... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1068 pages
...Rape, Cent. Dig. § 14; Dec. Dig. i 16.*] 6. ASSAULT AND BATTEET (J 48*)— "ASSAULT." An "assault" is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal injury to another, whether from malice or wantonness, under such circumstances as denote a present... | |
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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... 
