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battery2 CONSTRUCTSBattery (law)BLACKSTONE · 1769Electric batteryVOLTA · 1800

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Law

An unlawful touching of another person

In law, battery is the intentional and unlawful application of force to another person (any harmful or offensive bodily contact made without consent), and it is distinct from assault, which is only the threat or apprehension of such contact. Blackstone's Commentaries treats battery among the private wrongs to the person, and the modern tort and criminal doctrine, set out in treatises such as Prosser and Keeton's, still turns on an intended, non-consensual touching rather than on any resulting injury. The referent is a wrong defined by contact and intent, measured by whether an unpermitted touching occurred, and it has nothing to do with a stack of electrochemical cells, a set of psychological tests, or two baseball players beyond the shared root of battre, to beat.[1][2]

Unit
Whether an intentional, unconsented, harmful or offensive contact occurred
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Established by proof of an intentional act causing harmful or offensive contact without consent or privilege

Electrochemistry

Cells that store and deliver electric charge

In electricity, a battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into a flow of electric current, each cell driving charge through an external circuit by an oxidation–reduction reaction at its two electrodes. Volta's 1800 letter to the Royal Society, On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds, announced the first such device, the voltaic pile, a repeating stack of dissimilar metals and brine-soaked card that produced a steady current. The name was borrowed from Franklin's earlier ‘battery’ of linked Leyden jars; the referent here is an energy-storage device characterised by voltage, capacity, and internal resistance, unrelated to an unlawful touching or a baseball pairing.[3]

Unit
The voltage, charge capacity, and energy a cell or stack can deliver
Recovery means
A secondary (rechargeable) battery recovers charge when the reaction is driven backwards; a primary cell does not recover.
Measured by
Characterised by terminal voltage, amp-hour capacity, energy density, and internal resistance under load

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References

  1. Blackstone, W. (1979). Commentaries on the laws of England: A facsimile of the first edition of 1765–1769: Vol. 3. Of private wrongs. University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1768) ISBN 9780226055435
  2. Keeton, W. P., Dobbs, D. B., Keeton, R. E., & Owen, D. G. (1984). Prosser and Keeton on the law of torts (5th ed.). West Publishing. ISBN 9780314748805
  3. Volta, A. (1800). On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 90, 403–431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1800.0018

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