 | John Frederick Archbold - Court rules - 1836 - 548 pages
...this indictment, the prosecutor must prove that the defendant assaulted or beat him. An assault is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...: as by striking at him, with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him, at a distance to which the gun will carry ; or pointing a pitch-fork... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 496 pages
...(aesn/tiix, from the Fr. assaillir) ; an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another ; as by striking at him, with or without a weapon. Assault does not always necessarily imply a hitting or blow ; because, in trespass for assault and... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Justices of the peace - 1840 - 742 pages
...age, and the like, are called assaults. But in its usual and restricted sense, a common assault means an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...: as by striking at him, with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him, at a distance to which the gun will carry ; or pointing a pitchfork at... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Criminal law - 1841 - 834 pages
...of the statute, will be reserved for consideration in another place.(p) An assault is defined to be an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another ; as by stricking at him with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him, at a distance to which the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 956 pages
...(assullut, from the Fr. assai/lir) ; an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another ; as by striking at him, with or without a weapon. Assaidt does not always necessarily imply a hitting or blow ; because, in trespass for assault and... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Simmons - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1843 - 678 pages
...As a definition of a common aiiault is not elsewhere given, it ma> be observed, thut an aiiault is an attempt or offer with force and violence to do...striking at him •with or without a weapon. No words whatever can amount to an assault. An affray is a public offence to the terror of the king's subjects;... | |
 | Massachusetts. Commissioners on Criminal Law - Criminal law - 1844 - 448 pages
...commit a crime, generally, is denned in its place, which see. An assault is most frequently denned to be "an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal injury (or hurt) to another." (2 Hawk. c. 62, a. 1 ; Rose. Grim. Ev. 209 ; Bac. Abr. tit. Assault and... | |
 | Henry G. Cotton - Justices of the peace - 1845 - 570 pages
...the person of another. An assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon and missing him, or presenting a gun at him at a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 866 pages
...the Manner of setting forth the Justification. (A) What shall be said to be an Assault. AN 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 a distance to which the gun will carry, or pointing a pitch-fork at him,... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Justices of the peace - 1846 - 980 pages
...age, and the like, are called assaults. But in its usual and restricted sense, a common assault means an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...: as by striking at him, with or without a weapon ; or presenting a gun at him, at a distance to which the gun will carry, provided it be so loaded that... | |
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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... 
