Assault in United States
Assault Definition
An unlawful offer or attempt with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another. It may consist of any act tending to such injury, and accompanied by such circumstances as denote an intention and a present ability of personal violence. 1 Hill (N. Y.) 351. Force unlawfully directed or applied to the person of another under such circumstances as to cause a well-founded apprehension of immediate peril. Aggravated assault is one committed with the intention of committing some additional crime, or under circumstances of peculiar turpitude. Simple assault is one committed with no intention to do any other injury. Assault is generally coupled with battery, and for the excellent practical reason that they generally go together; but the assault is rather the initiation or offer to commit the act of which the battery is the consummation. An assault is included in every battery. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 62, § 1. Mere words do not constitute an assault (59 Ind. 300), but some overt act is required (55 Hun [N. Y.] 214).
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An unlawful offer or attempt with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another. It may consist of any act tending to such injury, and accompanied by such circumstances as denote an intention and a present ability of personal violence. 1 Hill (N. Y.) 351. Force unlawfully directed or applied to the person of another under such circumstances as to cause a well-founded apprehension of immediate peril. Aggravated assault is one committed with the intention of committing some additional crime, or under circumstances of peculiar turpitude. Simple assault is one committed with no intention to do any other injury. Assault is generally coupled with battery, and for the excellent practical reason that they generally go together; but the assault is rather the initiation or offer to commit the act of which the battery is the consummation. An assault is included in every battery. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 62, § 1. Mere words do not constitute an assault (59 Ind. 300), but some overt act is required (55 Hun [N. Y.] 214).
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This definition of Assault Is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . This entry needs to be proofread.
Plain-English Law
Assault as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455):
The crime of attempting to physically harm another person in a way that makes the person under attack feel immediately threatened. Actual physical contact is not necessary.
Further Reading (Articles)
Sexual Assaults In Army On Rise; Report Blames Poor Oversight And Training, The Washington Post; June 3, 2004; R. Jeffrey Smith
Alexandria ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS Arlington County SEXUAL ASSAULTS ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK- INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS VANDALISM, The Washington Post; January 6, 2011
ASSAULT ON THE FACTS UW SYSTEM SCHOOLS AND THE BIG TEN ARE NOT TELLING THE FEDS THE TRUTH ABOUT CAMPUS SEX CRIMES A SPECIAL REPORT.(FRONT), The Capital Times; April 27, 2002; Elbow, Steven
Sexual assault perpetrators’ alcohol and drug use: the likelihood of concurrent violence and post-sexual assault outcomes for women victims.(Report), Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; September 1, 2010; Busch-Armendariz, Noel Bridget DiNitto, Diana M. Bell, Holly Bohman, Thomas
Alexandria ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS Arlington SEXUAL ASSAULTS ASSAULTS ARSON INDECENT EXPOSURE ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS, The Washington Post; June 30, 2011
Alexandria ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS Arlington ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS, The Washington Post; July 7, 2011
SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE COORDINATOR PROVIDES ADVICE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 17, 2010
ASSAULT VICTIMS FIND EMPOWERMENT IN RESTRICTED REPORTING, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; October 31, 2008
Alexandria ASSAULTS THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS Arlington County SEXUAL ASSAULTS ASSAULTS ROBBERIES PEEPING TOM INCIDENTS THEFTS/BREAK-INS, The Washington Post; February 10, 2011
Alexandria ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS Arlington ROBBERIES PEEPING TOM INCIDENTS THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS VANDALISM, The Washington Post; May 5, 2011
Assaults Leave Nurses Fearful, Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand; June 1, 2014; Burns, Bernie
Assault on the Semiautomatic Weapons Ban, The Washington Post; May 11, 1995; Dianne Feinstein
ASSAULT VICTIMS CANNOT BE IGNORED.(Opinion), The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); April 19, 2000
Sexual Assault Is a Crime of Violence, Canadian Journal of Criminology; January 1, 1995; Roberts, Julian V.
ASSAULTS ON HUB POLICE ON RISE, STUDY SHOWS, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); November 16, 1990; Doreen E. Iudica, Globe Staff
Sexual Assault during the Time of Gulf War I: A Cross-Sectional Survey of U.S. Service Men Who Later Applied for Department of Veterans Affairs PTSD Disability Benefitsm Military Medicine; March 1, 2014; Murdoch, Maureen Polusny, Melissa A. Street, Amy Noorbaloochi, Siamak Simon, Alisha B. Bangerter, Ann Grill, Joseph Voller, Emily
ASSAULT HURTS ONE, AFFECTS ALL, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 22, 2010
Alexandria SEXUAL ASSAULTS ASSAU
LTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS Arlington County ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/ BREAK-INS TRAFFIC MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS, The Washington Post; January 13, 2011
Assault victims need more help, study says.(Front), The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); December 12, 2009
Alexandria ASSAULTS ROBBERIES THEFTS/BREAK-INS MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS, The Washington Post; December 9, 2010
Assault in State Statute Topics
Introduction to Assault
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The United States Assault and Battery Laws
General overview of assault and battery law under the United States statutes. Criminal assault is the intentional physical injury and threat of violence and criminal battery on another person. Factors such as the seriousness of the injury, the use of deadly weapons, and the mental culpability of the defendant determine the degree of the offense.
Assault
In Legislation
Assault in the U.S. Code: Title 18, Part I, Chapter 7
The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating assault are compiled in the United States Code under Title 18, Part I, Chapter 7. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Crimes and Criminal Law (including assault) of the United States. The readers can further narrow their legal research on the topic by chapter and subchapter.
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Further Reading
- Information about Assault in the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law.
Assault meaning
Assault is the attempt to inflict an injury upon another whether recklessly or intentionally. No contact is necessary, a mere threat can suffice to constitute an assault. Assault can be most easily, if somewhat simplistically, be remembered as attempt at battery.
Assault (and battery) are rare instances where law French legal terms do not (at least since the revolution) have any paralell in the modern French law despite linguistic correspondence (assaut: to jump; battre: to beat). Instead we see the délit of violence, which comprises any act which provokes a physical or emotional (morale) disturbance – and thus includes threats as well as attempts and actual unwanted contact.
State v. Murphy, 7 Wash. App. 505, 500 P.2d 1276, 1281.
See: battery, intentional torts
Strafbare Handlung
In German law, an act which injures the body or health of a person’s life or limb is punishable as a strafbare Handlung.
Violence
Violence is an act, whether deliberate or not, which induces in the victim a physical or emotional disturbance with damaging effects on his person or goods.
Assault and Tax Law
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