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Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person.
The Pakistan Penal Code (Urdu: مجموعہ تعزیرات پاکستان; Majmū'ah-yi ta'zīrāt-i Pākistān), abbreviated as PPC, is a penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan. It was originally prepared by Lord Macaulay with a great consultation in 1860 on behalf of the Government of British India as the Indian Penal Code .
In common law, battery is a tort falling under the umbrella term 'trespass to the person'. Entailing unlawful contact which is directed and intentional, or reckless (or, in Australia, negligently [1]) and voluntarily bringing about a harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them, such as a bag or purse, without legal consent.
A police radio code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States.
[8] [32] Both assault (fear of violence) and battery (infliction of violence) are included, [33] although it is possible to consider section 47 as creating two offences – one involving an assault, and one a battery. [32] "Occasioning" is generally taken to mean "causing" although John Gardner has argued that it is wider than that. [33]
Hudud offenses are mentioned in the Quran.The punishments for these offenses are drawn from both the Quran and the Sunnah.The Quran does not define the offenses precisely: their definitions were elaborated in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).
The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan.It replaced parts of the British-era Pakistan Penal Code, adding new criminal offences of adultery and fornication, and new punishments of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death.
Offense or crime, a violation of penal law; An insult, or negative feeling in response to a perceived insult; An attack, a proactive offensive engagement; Sin, an act that violates a known moral rule; Offense (sports), the action of engaging an opposing team with the objective of scoring