Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Aggravated battery
a criminal battery accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon or the fact that the battery resulted in serious bodily harm.
Assault and battery.
loosely, a criminal battery. See battery.
Battery
n. 1. Criminal law. The application of force to another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact. ( it is a misdemeanor under most modern statutes. - also termed criminal battery. "criminal battery, sometimes defined briefly as the unlawful application of force to the person of another, may be divided into its three basic elements: (1) the defendant's conduct (act or omission); (2) his 'mental state,' which may be an intent to kill or injure, or crimina egligence, or perhaps the doing of an unlawful act; and (3) the harmful result to the victim, which may be either a bodily injury or an offensive touching." wayne r. Lafave & austin w. Scott, jr., criminal law § 7.15, at 685 (2d ed. 1986).
Sexual battery
the forced penetration of or contact with another's sexual organs or the sexual organs of the perpetrator. See rape.
Simple battery
a criminal battery not accompanied by aggravating circumstances and not resulting in serious bodily harm.2. Torts. An intentional and offensive touching of another without lawful justification. - also termed tortious battery. - batter, ub. Cf. Assault. Battle of the forms the conflict between the terms of standard forms exchanged between a buyer and a seller during contract negotiations. ( ucc § 2-207 attempts to resolve battles of the forms by abandoning the common-law requirement of mirror-image acceptance and providing the rules of offer and acceptance are difficult to apply in certain circumstances known as the 'battle of the forms' where parties want to enter into a contract, but jockey for position in an attempt to use the rules of law so as to ensure that the contr
aggravated battery.
see battery.
criminal battery
See BATTERY.
sexual battery
See BATTERY.
simple battery
See BATTERY.
tortious battery
See BATTERY (2)