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assault and battery
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assault
and
battery
(
law
,
idiomatic
)
The combination of two
violent
crimes
:
assault
(the
threat
of
violence
) and
battery
(physical violence). This
legal
distinction exists only in
jurisdictions
that distinguish assault as
threatened
violence rather than
actual
violence.