If you are acting with reasonable prudence to prevent the injury of one person to another, typically yes. Within limits. You may not use excess force to protect another. You may not kill or cause death. You may not pursue the attacker if he attempts to flee. Generally you may only use that force which is necessary to prevent injury, or to subdue the attacker until law enforcement can arrive to take control of the situation. Of course it will depend heavily on the person you are defending. If that person could have escaped to avoid injury, and you jumped in, both you and the person attacked could be charged with mutual battery along with the original attacker. The odds of a successful legal defense go up dramatically in proportion to the level of helplessness of the person being attacked.
An assault is a violent attack on someone, using physical means as blows.
Any person that pushing; shoves or hits someone else and even though there are no injuries to the victim it is still assault. No one has the right to take any of these actions against another person.
Assault and Battery on a Police Officer is a serious criminal offense. There is a common misconception about Assault, and I'll explain this here. Assault is not the unlawful touching of another person, that is Battery. Assault is to provoke fear in someone that you may batter them (hit them). If you've been charged with Assault & Battery on a Police officer, it would be suggest that you seek legal counsel to protect your rights.
An allegation of assault means that someone has been accused of physically attacking or causing harm to another person. Allegations of assault should be taken seriously and thoroughly investigated to determine the truth of the matter.
Hiring someone to beat up another person is commonly referred to as assault or hiring a hitman. It is illegal and punishable by law.
Assault
The person who first physically contacts the other is guilty of the assault. Your assumption of the other persons's intent is immaterial. Assault is one of those offenses in which you almost have to be the victim of the first blow struck before you can retaliate. In many jurisdictions, assault is threat of bodily harm when the ability to carry it out exists. The actual contact is battery.
because you are hurting another person and doing harm to them !
The term assault has the following definition: a sudden violent attack, or an unlawful physical attack on another or an attempt to do violence to another person.
A very generic description is, an assault on another person where a weapon is used, or where serious bodily injury is inflicted on the victim, or both. As a basic comparison, smacking somebody in the face would (under most circumstances) be a simple assault, hitting someone with a baseball bat would (under most circumstances) be an aggravated assault.
No. Throwing an object an hitting another person is battery. Throwing it and missing them would be considered assault.
Well, yes, because you are hurting the person. If you have the crazed mine to hurt a person, you either are hurt at home, or, your on drugs or get drunk too much.I hope you got the right idea ;)That And you can Get arrested for Assault and If someone attacks you, you can charge them. Regardless about where it is. I'm not sure about the verbal assault though.... also if you provoke someone, you're in the wrong.