A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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London :: Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1658.
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Law -- Terminology.
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"A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50063.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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ASSAULT.
Assault, is from the Latine word Assultus, which denoteth a leaping or flying upon a man, so that it cannot be performed without the offer of some hurtfull blow, or atleast some fearfull speech, and therefore to rebuke a Collector with foul words, so that he departed for fear without doing his Of∣fice, was taken for an assault. To strike at a man* 1.1 though he were neither hurt nor hit with the blow, was adjudged ••n assault 22 lib. Ass. Plea. 60. Assault doth not alwaies imply necessarily a hitting and therefore in trespass, for assault and battery, a man may be found guilty of the assault, and yet excused of the battery. 40 Ed. 3, 4. and 25 Ed. 3. 24.