Moderate Castigavit
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In pleading. The name of a plea in trespass by which the defendant justifies an assault and battery, because he moderately corrected the plaintiff, whom he had a right to correct.
2 Chit. PI. 576; 2 Bos. & P. 224; 15 Mass. 347; 2 Phil. Ev. 147; Bac. Abr. "Assault" (C).
This plea ought to disclose, in general terms, the cause which rendered the correction expedient.
3 Salk. 47.