Assault And Battery Definition

noun
A criminal act involving both a threat of violence and actual physical contact with the victim.
American Heritage
The carrying out of threatened physical harm or violence; an unlawful beating.
Webster's New World

(law, idiomatic) The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.

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