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Offences Against Person include assassination and assault. Assassination is defined as killing a prominent person for political, religious, or monetary reasons. Assault is defined as inflicting physical harm or unwanted contact on another person. Assault laws vary by jurisdiction but generally acknowledge assaults can range in severity from misdemeanors to felonies. Common assault, assault causing bodily harm, and aggravated assault are some examples of assault charges.

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Offences Against Person include assassination and assault. Assassination is defined as killing a prominent person for political, religious, or monetary reasons. Assault is defined as inflicting physical harm or unwanted contact on another person. Assault laws vary by jurisdiction but generally acknowledge assaults can range in severity from misdemeanors to felonies. Common assault, assault causing bodily harm, and aggravated assault are some examples of assault charges.

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Offences Against Person :

 Assassination:
Assassination is the act of killing a prominent person for either political, religious or
monetary reasons.
An assassination may be prompted by religious, political or military motives. It is an
act that may be done for financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from a desire to
acquire fame or notoriety, or because of a military, security, insurgent or secret
police group's command to carry out the homicide. Acts of assassination have been
performed since ancient times.

 Assault :
An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact
upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to
commit such an action. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result
in either criminal and/or civil liability. Generally, the common law definition is
the same in criminal and tort law.
Traditionally, common law legal systems had separate definitions for assault
and battery. When this distinction is observed, battery refers to the actual
bodily contact, whereas assault refers to a credible threat or attempt to cause
battery. Some jurisdictions combined the two offences into assault and
battery, which then became widely referred to as "assault". The result is that
in many of these jurisdictions, assault has taken on a definition that is more in
line with the traditional definition of battery. The legal systems of civil law
and Scots law have never distinguished assault from battery.
Legal systems generally acknowledge that assaults can vary greatly in
severity. In the United States, an assault can be charged as either
a misdemeanor or a felony. In England and Wales and Australia, it can be
charged as either common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily
harm (ABH) or grievous bodily harm (GBH). Canada also has a three-tier
system: assault, assault causing bodily harm and aggravated assault.
Separate charges typically exist for sexual assaults, affray and assaulting a
police officer. Assault may overlap with an attempted crime; for example an
assault may be charged as an attempted murder if it was done with intent to
kill.

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