Battery
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
<Any unlawful beating, or other wrongful physical violence or con straint, inflicted on a human being without his consent.
2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 71.
A battery is a willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
Pen, Code Cal. § 242; Pen. Code Dak. § 306.
The actual offer to use force to the injury cf an other person is assault; the use of it is battery; hence the two terms are coummonly combined in the term “assault and battery.”