 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 pages
...definition of assault: 1 Hawkins, ch. 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... | |
 | Karl von Birkmeyer - Comparative law - 1905 - 520 pages
...abzulehnen, da Gewalt gegen Sachen nie assault ist. Die überall zu findende Definition: „an attempt and offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another" stammt aus Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, c. 62, s. 1. *) Blackstone (1809) 3, 118, 120, No. 2, 3. Über... | |
 | William Ephraim Mikell - Criminal law - 1908 - 638 pages
...390, 66 NY Supp. 161 (1900). CHAPTER VIII. ASSAULT, BATTERY, AND MAYHEM. 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 such a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitchfork... | |
 | Oklahoma. Criminal Court of Appeals - Criminal law - 1921 - 796 pages
...Opinion of the Court. you are further instructed that an assault is any willful and unlawful attempt to offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, and a battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another, and... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 460 pages
...consent of the person assaulted or with such consent if it is obtained by fraud. An assault is any attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, whether from malice or wantonness; as by striking at him, or even by holding up one's fist at him in... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 1338 pages
...Intent to Injure Is an essential element of the offense of assault and battery; an "assault" being an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, and the touching of another In an angry, revengeful, rude, or insulting manner being a "battery." McGee... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 894 pages
...Elements of the crime.— Assault is defined as "an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do corporal hurt to another as by striking at him with or without a weapon; or presenting a gun at him at such distance to which the gun will carry; or pointing a pitchfork at... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 784 pages
...towards Mr. Stoughton ; and for this they cite Hawk, b. 1, c. 62 f 1. "It seems that an assault is an attempt or offer with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another; as by sticking at him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him, at such a distance to which the... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Criminal law - 1915 - 1034 pages
...maims, because they do not weaken, but only disfigure him. Ibid., ch. 15, sect. 1, 2. An assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another ; as b3- striking at him with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him at such a distance to which... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark - Criminal law - 1915 - 648 pages
...preventive interference or by misadventure." Lane v. State, 85 Ala. 11, 4 South. 730. "An assault is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another, aa by striking at another 82. A battery is an assault whereby any force, however slight, is actually... | |
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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... 
