Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Aggravated assault

Criminal assault accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the intent to commit another crime, or the intent to cause serious bodily harm.

Assault

n. 1. Criminal & tort law. The threat or use of force on another that causes that person to have a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact; the act of putting another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of an immediate battery by means of an act amounting to an attempt or threat to commit a battery. 2. Criminal law. An attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury. - also termed (in senses 1 and 2) simple assault. 3. Loosely, a battery. 4. Popularly, any attack. - assault, vb. - assaultive, adj. Cf. Battery.

Assault and battery.

loosely, a criminal battery. See battery.

Assault purpense

see assault.

Assault to rape

see assault with intent to commit rape.

Assault with a deadly weapon

see assault.

Assault with intent

Any of several assaults that are carried out with an additional criminal purpose in mind, such as assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to rob, assault with intent to rape, and assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. ( these are modern statutory inventions that are often found in state criminal codes.

Assault with intent to commit rape

see assault.

Assault with intent to commit rape1

An assault carried out with the additional criminal purpose of intending to rape the victim. - also termed assault to rape.

Assaultee

a person who is assaulted. Assaulter. A person who assaults another.

Attempted assault

An attempt to commit an assault. - also termed attempt to assault.

Attempted assault.

see assault

Civil assault

An assault considered as a tort and not as a crime. ( although the same assaultive conduct can be both a tort and a that give rise to civil liability.

Conditional assault

an assault express a threat on condition, such as "your money your life."

Criminal assault

an assault considered a crime and not as a tort. 0 this term isola the legal elements that give rise to criminal liability even though the act might also have been tortious.

Examples include deprivation of food or medication, beatings, oral assaults, and isolation. - Also termed elder abuse. carnal abuse. See sexual abuse.

Excusable assault

an assault committed accident or while doing a lawful act by law means, with ordinary caution and with any unlawful intent.

Felonious assault

an assault that is of s ficient severity to be classified and as a felony. See aggravated assault.

Indecent assault

see sexual assat.Malicious assault with a deadly an aggravated assault in which the victim, threatened with death or serious bodily ht: from the defendant's use of a deadly weapon ( malice is inferred from both the nature the assault and the weapon used.

Sexual assault.

1. Sexual intercourse with another person without that person's c sent. 9 several state statutes have abolished' the crime of rape and replaced it with offense of sexual assault. 2. Offensive sexual contact with another person, exclusive of rape also termed (in sense assault. Cf. Rape.

Simple assault

1. Assault (1). "(1) simple assault. A person is guilty of assault (a) attempts to cause or purposely, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; or (b) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon; or (c) attempts by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily injury." model penal code § 211.1 (1997).

Ttempt to assault.

see attempted assault under assault.

aggravated assault

see assault.

civil assault

See ASSAULT.

conditional assault

See ASSAULT.

criminal assault

See ASSAULT.

excusable assault

See ASSAULT.

felonious assault

See ASSAULT.

indecent assault

See sexual assault (2) under ASSAULT.

malicious assault with a deadly weapon

See ASSAULT.

sexual assault

See ASSAULT.

simple assault

See ASSAULT.

son assault demesne

[French "his own assault"] The plea of selfdefense in a tort action, by which the defendant alleges that the plaintiff originally engaged in an assault and that the defendant used only the force necessary to repel the plaintiff's assault and to protect person and property. See SELFDEFENSE.