Sentence examples for offensive contact from inspiring English sources

Assault: (1) intent to cause harmful or offensive contact; and (2) imminent apprehension of such 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.

In the context of assault, the victim's "apprehension" happens if the victim believes that the tortfeasor's conduct will result in imminent harmful or offensive contact unless it is prevented.

Many cases now brought under Title VII could instead come under tort laws, like those proscribing battery (which is defined, broadly, as "a harmful or offensive contact with a person" made with intent), assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.

For example, a defendant commits battery if she acts, intending to cause harmful or offensive contact with the plaintiff, and such contact in fact results from her act.

There are any number of intentional torts such as parental kidnapping of children, invasions of privacy via wiretapping, video or audio surveillance, assault (threats of harmful or offensive contact) and battery (actual harmful or offensive contact), and transmitting sexual diseases.

And, sexual harassment is any unwelcome and non-reciprocal verbal or physical conduct of sexual nature such as insulting gestures, jokes, gifts, or offensive contacts.

In order to convict the defendant of assault, the State must prove that the defendant caused offensive physical contact with Freddie Gray; that the contact was the result of an intentional or reckless act of the defendant and was not accidental; and that the contact was not legally justified.

Benton County district attorney John Haroldson said six students, aged 15-17, are facing a range of assault and harassment charges, including "offensive physical contact with intimate parts".

In order to convict the defendant of assault, the State must prove that the defendant caused offensive physical contact with Freddie Gray.

The jury found in answer to special issues 3 and 4, under the interpretation we have given them, that the store manager intentionally placed Cathy Bennight in apprehension of a harmful or offensive bodily contact with a bat.