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Definition of Aggravated assault
1. Noun. A reckless attack with intent to injure seriously (as with a deadly weapon).
Definition of Aggravated assault
1. Noun. (US criminal legal) Assault with disregard for the value of life, or with a deadly weapon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggravated Assault
Literary usage of Aggravated assault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"An assault with intent to kill, to do great bodily harm, to rape, to rob, etc., is
called an aggravated assault, as distinguished from a common assault, ..."
2. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"If the jury find that the prisoner committed euch an aggravated assault, then he
is liable to transportation.(У) The same general rules which prevail in ..."
3. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"On the other hand, an aggravated assault involves a specific criminal intent.
... And the penalty for an aggravated assault is, of course, greater than that ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1900)
"If a statute define* an aggravated assault to be one where the means used are
such as Inflict disgrace upon the person assaulted, "as an assault and battery ..."
5. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen (1905)
"If a husband is convicted of an aggravated assault upon his wife within the
meaning of 24 & 25 Viet. o. ICO, s. 43, the Court or magistrate before whom he ..."
6. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"aggravated assault.—By statute in England and in the United States assaults done
under certain circumstances or with certain weapons constitute aggravated ..."
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