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Is it against the law to punch someone. Yes coughing on someone to expose them to illness is assault. If the other person consents it is not offensive or harmful contact. So while not right up there with murder spitting at someone is against the law as long as you intend to spit at or on another person or are reckless as to whether your spitting may contact another person.

Spitting on someone is regarded as an assault. However self defense is a defense to an assault charge. The statements I make do not constitute legal advice.

Making graffiti behaving in a way that causes offence to other people like racial vilification swearing and using obscene language or exposing your genitals protests and demonstrations taking inappropriate photos of someone without their knowledge upskirting lighting fires or setting off. The crime of hitting someone is called battery not assault as most people believe. If someone in your life or an ex-spouse or ex-lover hurts you physically we will arrest the offender and change them with an offence.

Of course it is against the law to put your hands on anyone especially a punch. If there was nothing other than a minor injury or bruised ego the it sounds as if the person throwing the punch would be charged with an assault in the fourth degree a gross misdemeanor for which she would be facing a 364 day maximum sentence. Different types of assault have different penalties depending on the seriousness.

The offence is only committed if it has that effect. If someone pushes you you push back and then they punch you and keep punching until youre dead thats fully legal because they consider that mutual combat. I am not your lawyer.

You are well within your rights to sue someone if they punched you. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Punching or striking another person is considered a crime of battery.