ASSAULT, in Law, is a violent Injury offered to a Man’sPerson, of a larger Extent than Battery, for that it may becommitted by only offering to give a Blow, or by a threatening Speech, etc. See BATTERY.
To rebuke a Collector with foul Words, so that he departed for Fear, without doing his Office, was adjudged anAssault; and to strike a Man, though he be not hurt with theBlow, is reputed the same. In Trespass for Assault andBattery, a Man may be found guilty of the Assault, and excused of the Battery, 25 Edw. 3.
