An attempt with force or violence to do a corporal injury to another; may consist of any act tending to such corporal injury, accompanied with such circumstances as denotes at the time an intention, coupled with present ability, of using actual violence against the person.
or “reasonable apprehension of the immediate application of force to the victim”.
“Assault” varies in definition by jurisdiction and circumstance. Pulling a conversation about sexual assault into the weeds is, frankly, a strange move, but go on with your bait.
Definitions predominantly involve violence, physical force, or reasonable & immediate expectation of it.
I’m not a big fan of distorting ideas with loaded language: the bait was theirs.
We’re calling intimidation/harassment assault now? That’s histrionic.
Assault as opposed to battery.
Well, yes. Sexual assault is a catch all.
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or “reasonable apprehension of the immediate application of force to the victim”.
No.
“Assault” varies in definition by jurisdiction and circumstance. Pulling a conversation about sexual assault into the weeds is, frankly, a strange move, but go on with your bait.
Definitions predominantly involve violence, physical force, or reasonable & immediate expectation of it. I’m not a big fan of distorting ideas with loaded language: the bait was theirs.
I think you might need to learn a bit about body language and context. Frankly, this entire conversation has made me fairly uncomfortable, so I’m out