2. Verb. (third-person singular of assault) ¹
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Definition of Assaults
1. assault [v] - See also: assault
Literary usage of Assaults
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)
"All assaults and assault and battery are misdemeanors at common law. In some
jurisdictions aggravated assaults are made felonies. 1. ..."
2. A Treatise on Criminal Law by Francis Wharton, William Draper Lewis (1896)
"At common law assaults with intent to commit felonies assaults were misdemeanors,
and under this head fall all aggra- vated assaults.7 The punishment, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Evidence of other assaults.—It is not permissible to prove assaults by the
defendant upon other persons or upon the same person at other times and places, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"the highest temperatures do not show the greatest excesses for assaults, but the
increase in the death rate is parallel with that of heat. ..."
5. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime by Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson (1881)
"By threats or force to obstruct or pre- assaults, &c., vent a clergyman or ...
Whosoever, being legally assaults on, liable either as master or mistress to ..."
6. Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims: National Crime by Marianne W. Zawitz (1993)
"Aggravated assault involves serious injury and includes all assaults or threats
of injury with a deadly or Facts about assault • ln 1992, over 5 million ..."
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