Cole v Turner
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1704 |
| Year | 1704 |
| Court | Court of the King's Bench |
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7 cases
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Wilson v Pringle
...no assault, there being no intention to assault…but if one, intending to assault, strike at another and miss him, this is an assault." 11 Cole v Turner (1704) 6 Mod 149 (87 ER 907) was an action in trespass for assault and battery. Holt C.J. ruled that the least touching is a battery if it ......
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R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
...been established that any touching of another person, however slight, may amount to a battery." So Holt C.J. held in Cole v. Turner (1704) 6 Mod. 149 that "the least touching of another in anger is a battery." The breadth of the principle reflects the fundamental nature of the interest so p......
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Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation); F v West Berkshire HA
...the old days it used to be said that, for a touching of another's person to amount to a battery, it had to be a touching "in anger" (see Cole v. Turner (1704) 6 Mod. 149 per Holt C.J.); and it has recently been said that the touching must be "hostile" to have that effect (see Wilson v. Prin......
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Kevin Marland v Director of Public Prosecutions
...protected not only against physical injury but against any form of physical molestation”: Collins v Wilcock, 1177C-D. (In Cole v Turner (1704) 6 Mod 149 Hold CJ had limited his reference to “ the least touching of another” by the words “ in anger”, but Robert Goff LJ observed in Collins v W......
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