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.
Battery is the intentional use of force or violence upon the person of another; or the intentional administration of a poison or other noxious liquid or substance to another. Canada. Battery is not defined in the Canadian Criminal Code. Instead, the Code has an offense of assault, and assault causing bodily harm. England and Wales