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To: Mamzelle

Actually, he could have her arrested for assault. I’m sure he’d rather not give her the attention.


46 posted on 03/14/2017 2:34:02 AM PDT by beachn4fun (When a crowd adopts a point of view en masse, all critical thinking stops...William Powers)
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To: beachn4fun

Assault and Battery

Two separate offenses against the person that when used in one expression may be defined as any unlawful and unpermitted touching of another. Assault is an act that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent, harmful, or offensive contact. The act consists of a threat of harm accompanied by an apparent, present ability to carry out the threat. Battery is a harmful or offensive touching of another.

The main distinction between the two offenses is the existence or nonexistence of a touching or contact. While contact is an essential element of battery, there must be an absence of contact for assault. Sometimes assault is defined loosely to include battery.

 

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Assault+and+Battery

51 posted on 03/14/2017 5:23:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: beachn4fun

But if he swore out a complain, or sued her, we’d get to QUESTION HER. Like—who do you work for and what do you get paid?


52 posted on 03/14/2017 5:30:55 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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