assault and batteryin a sentence
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...the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female. (source)assault and battery = threatened violence (assault) in which the assailant makes physical contact (battery)
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Various members of the family had been convicted of everything from assault and battery to arson, attempted murder, and murder itself, and the rocky, wooded homestead that housed the extended family was like a country with its own rules.† (source)
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He had started his career at the age of sixteen when he was put on probation and in institutional care for assault and battery and theft.† (source)
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And the officer wants to arrest him for assault and battery because the man hugs him!† (source)
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Followed by a history of street brawls and barroom fights and a series of arrests for Drunkenness, Assault and Battery, Disturbing the Peace, repeated gambling, and one arrest-for Rape.† (source)
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He handled every kind of case—land transfers, trespass, admiralty, marine insurance, murder, adultery, rape, bastardy, buggery, assault and battery, tarring and feathering.† (source)
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Assault and battery is always the same, no matter who does the assaulting and battering.† (source)
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(midnight had slipped by long before we parted)—the marble-faced police magistrate, after distributing fines and terms of imprisonment in the assault-and-battery case, would take up the awful weapon and smite his bowed neck† (source)
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Then he stood before the sergeant's desk and gave his name and address, and saw a charge of assault and battery entered against him.† (source)
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Why, Tom had him up before Judge Robinson for assault and battery.† (source)
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'The next case was that of assault and battery committed upon a money-lender, I believe; and the defendant—a venerable villager with a straight white beard—sat on a mat just outside the door with his sons, daughters, sons-in-law, their wives, and, I should think, half the population of his village besides, squatting or standing around him.† (source)
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He brings actions for assault and battery; I defend them and continue to assault and batter.† (source)
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This was indeed a more serious charge than an ordinary assault and battery, and a corresponding degree of interest was manifested by the spectators in its result.† (source)
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He was mainly in the penitentiary for breaking out of it, anyway, since for his crime of assault and battery he had received three years and time off for good behavior.† (source)
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She was charged with assault and battery.† (source)
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His juvenile records are sealed, so we can't say what else he may have done in his teens, but in college, he was suspected in the assault and battery of his former roommate.† (source)
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