Son

An immediate male descendant In its technical meaning in devises, this is a word of purchase; but the testator may moke it a word of descent Sometimes it is extended to more remote descendants. 2 Des. 123, n. SON ASSAULT DEMESNE (L. Fr. his own first assault). In Pleading. A form of a plea to justify an assault and battery, by which the defendant asserts that the plaintiff committed an assault upon him and the defendant merely defended himself. When the plea is supported by evidence, it is a sufficient justification, unless the retaliation by the defendant were excessive and bore no proportion to the necessity or to the provocation received; 1 East, PI. Cr. 406; Scribner v. Beach, 4 Denio (N. Y.) 448, 47 Am. Dec. 265.

Fr. His. Her. See Civ. Code La. art. 3522.
—Son assault demesne. His own assault. A plea which occurs in the actions of trespass and trespass on the case, by which the defendant alleges that it was the plaintiff's own original assault that occasioned the trespass for which he has brought the action, and that what the defendant did was merely in his own defense. Steph. Pi. 186.

I. fr. His. Son assault demesne: his own assault, — the name of a plea in an action of trespass for an assault, that it was the plaintiflE's own assault that occasioned the injury, or that the assault was made by the defendant in self-defensa

His. Son assault demesne. His own assault. Has been explained under