assault

Assault and battery is a modern legal term which combines assault with the separate charge of battery. Assault refers to the wrong act of causing someone to reasonably fear imminent harm. This means that the fear must be something a reasonable person would foresee as threatening to them. Battery refers to the actual wrong act of physically harming someone.

• assault
• battery
• intentional tort
• tort law

Battery is the intentional infliction of harmful or offensive physical contact with another person without consent. It is both an intentional tort and a crime. 

• assault
• battery
• tort law
• tort liability
• criminal law