criminal assault

An assault considered as a crime and not as a tort.

• This term isolates the legal elements that give rise to criminal liability even though the act might also have been tortious. [Cases: Assault and Battery 48. C.J.S. Assault and Battery §§ 2–3, 62, 64–66, 81.]

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