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To: Jemian

Battery is concerned with the right to have one’s body left alone by others.

Battery is both a tort and a crime. Its essential element, harmful or offensive contact, is the same in both areas of the law. The main distinction between the two categories lies in the penalty imposed. A defendant sued for a tort is civilly liable to the plaintiff for damages. The punishment for criminal battery is a fine, imprisonment, or both. Usually battery is prosecuted as a crime only in cases involving serious harm to the victim.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Battery


32 posted on 09/02/2016 7:12:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I think you have a law suit here! If the kisser is dead, we can always dig him up and hang him. They used to do that in England. If he’s alive at 105, we can throw him in the brig. Go for it!


70 posted on 09/02/2016 9:16:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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