Assault and battery

{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-000580",
  "term": "Assault and battery",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "Two related intentional torts that are often pleaded together. Assault is an act that creates a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, while battery is the intentional, unconsented physical contact itself. Either can occur without the other: swinging a fist and missing is an assault without a battery, and striking someone who never saw it coming is a battery without an assault.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/assault-and-battery/"
}