On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:42:15 +0100,
(David Horne) wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

David Horne writes:

You can feel threatened, quite legitimately,
without _being_ directly threatened.

That's assault.

In UK law, that would be very hard to prove, unless there had been any
physical contact.

In general, assault does not require physical contact; physical
contact constitutes battery. Assault is an aggressive action
which the recipient might reasonably assume could end in battery.
Specific statutes may modify this, and civil and criminal law may
differ somewhat.


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