{"id":1552,"date":"2016-12-28T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T08:32:04","slug":"assault-and-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/assault-and-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault and battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Winfield has given an interesting example , distinguishing assault and battery , which is popularly accepted by all . According to Winfield , when a person is going to sit on a chair , just at that moment if the chair is pulled away , the wrongful act of pulling away the chair is assault . The moment he falls on the floor and gets hurt , it is battery . Likewise , to throw hot water at a person is assault . But the moment , the hot water falls on the person , it is battery .<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been observed by an eminent writer that assault and battery are like ham and eggs . But there are subtle points of distinctions between assault and battery .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The points of distinctions may be shown in the following tabular form .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cms_table\">\n<table class=\"cms_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Assault.<br><\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Battery.<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1.<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Assault is an action which puts the victim in instant fear of unlawful force though no force may actually be applied .<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Application of unlawful force to another\u2019s person is battery.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2.<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Assault includes mere fear of physical violence without any physical contact .<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In battery physical contact as a result of the violence is must .<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">3.<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Assault may not be ended in battery . As for example , if X lifts up his stick aiming at y , that is battery .<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But every battery includes assault.<br>As for example , if X lifts up his stick aiming at y , and beats him , the beating is battery .<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">4.<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Where the wrongful act shows that there is reasonable apprehension of immediate violence , the act is assault .<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But when the apprehension of violence takes the effect by touching the victims person , that is battery&nbsp;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winfield has given an interesting example , distinguishing assault and battery , which is popularly accepted by all . According to Winfield , when a person is going to sit on a chair , just at that moment if the chair is pulled away , the wrongful act of pulling away the chair is assault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[86,85],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-torts","tag-ccs-university","tag-ccsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}