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I. de S. and Wife v. W. de S.

At the Assizes

1348 [or 1349] Year Book, Liber Assisarum, folio 99, placitum 60

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W. de S. (defendant), unable to buy wine at a closed tavern, struck the door of I. de S.'s house with a hatchet, and when I. de S.'s wife put her head out the window and ordered him to stop, he waved the hatchet toward her head without actually striking her.

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Whether physical harm is required to establish liability for assault.

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