To strike with successive blows.
Definition of Beat
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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
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Ballentine's Law Dictionary -
Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Editionn. In some of the southern states (as Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina) the principal legal subdivision of a county, corresponding to towns or townships in other states; or a voting precinct WUliams v. Pearson, 38 Ala. 308.
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Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition
v. In the criminal law and law of torts, with reference to assault and battery, this term includes any unlawful physical violence offered to another. See Battery. In other connections, it is understood in a more restricted sense, and includes only the infliction of one or more blows. Regina v. Hale, 2 Car. & K. 327; Com. v. McClellan, 101 Mass. 35; State v. Harrigan, 4 Penne-wlll (Del.) 129, 55 Atl. 5.