Battery

[L. Lat. batteria, from battere, (q. v.) Lat. verberatio, pulsatio.] The unlawful beating of another.

3 Bl. Com. 120.

Any unlawful touching of the person of another, either by the aggressor himself, or any other substance put m motion by him, provided it be wilfully committed, or proceed from the want of due care.

3 Chit. Bl. Com. 120, note.

Com. Dig. Battery, (A).

Skin. 387. 1 Saund. 14, note (c).

Am. ed.

1846. Jlob. 134. 1 Russell on Crimes, 761.

U. S. Digest, Assault and Battery. Every battery includes an assault. Hawk, P. a. b.

2, c. 62, § 1.