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(3) the other is thereby put in such imminent apprehension.
Assault: (1) intent to cause harmful or offensive contact; and (2) imminent apprehension of such contact.
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This case falls within the scope of Restatement Torts 2d § 13 which provides, inter alia, that an actor is subject to liability to another for battery if intending to cause a third person to have an imminent apprehension of a harmful bodily contact, the actor causes the other to suffer a harmful contact.
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An assault charge does not require physical contact — intentionally giving someone "reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury" is enough.
Based on these facts, it is fair to say that whether intended as so, or not, begging in the subway often amounts to nothing less than assault, creating in the passengers the apprehension of imminent danger.
Breaking it down, the tort of assault refers to an intentional act that is meant to cause a reasonable apprehension of imminent and harmful contact.
The definition of assault varies by jurisdiction, but is generally defined as intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact.
Imminent peril crowds out every other apprehension nowadays, and the next bout of price inflation appears anything but close at hand.
This will stabilize the head of the humerus in the glenoid at the time when subluxation is imminent, and should relieve any pain or apprehension.
It was evident that a series of events over the last three days -- Mr. Bush's repeated appeals to the public to go about their normal lives, the anthrax scare and a general warning from the F.B.I. that new terrorist attacks were imminent -- had created a mood of fear and apprehension in the country.
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