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A defense asserted in a criminal prosecution that a person who committed a crime did not do so of his or her own free will, but only because the individual was compelled by another through the use of physical force or threat of immediate serious bodily injury or death.
Any contact with a person is sufficient to be an assault in law subject to the defence of consent. 2 in English criminal law, the crime constituted broadly as stated above. When included with battery it is another statutory offence.