Sentences with phrase «actual physical assault»

Not exact matches

The crime of assault always requires actual physical injury under New York criminal law.

Dating Abuse is defined as a pattern of coercive behavior in which one person attempts to control another through threats or actual use of physical violence, sexual assault, and verbal or psychological abuse.

With this definition, an actual act of unlawful physical contact is a battery, which is something different to an assault.

In the case of an assault, for example, you do not need to show that a person's action caused you actual physical harm, but only that you expected some harm to come to you.

In fact, the explicit absence of any time - bar in which to sue has been expanded in Ontario beyond «sexual assault» (i.e., where there has been actual physical contact of a sexual nature) to «any other misconduct of a sexual nature» if it involved a minor or occurred in a relationship of inequality or dependency.