The Neolithic Transition. With the development of agriculture, humans began to radically transform. the environments in which they lived. A growing portion of humans became. sedentary cultivators who cleared the lands around their settlements and. controlled the plants that grew and the animals that grazed on them.
At common law, battery is the tort of intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them (e.g. a hat, a purse). Unlike assault, battery involves an actual contact.
A battery is an intentional tort, as opposed to an act resulting from negligence. The elements to establish the tort of battery are the same as for criminal battery (details below), excepting that criminal intent need not be present. The elements of civil battery are: 1  Intent (not criminal intent to cause injury, necessarily, but intent to commit the act).