Battery is defined as causing bodily harm or making physical contact of an insulting or provocative nature.

Battery is defined as causing bodily harm or making physical contact of an insulting or provocative nature.

• A. Battery
• B. Arrest
• C. Arson
• D. Admission

Answer: (A)

Battery is the intentional, unlawful touching of another person that is either harmful or offensive. The essential idea here is that the act involves deliberate contact without the other person’s consent, and the contact is such that it could cause bodily harm or is insulting or provocative. Even if no serious injury occurs, the touch itself being harmful or offensive satisfies the definition. This fits the term described because it focuses on actual contact (not just threats) and on the nature of that contact being either harmful or offensive. The other options point to different concepts—arrest is a police custody action, arson is burning property, and admission is a confession—so they do not describe the prohibited touching that defines battery.

Battery is the intentional, unlawful touching of another person that is either harmful or offensive. The essential idea here is that the act involves deliberate contact without the other person’s consent, and the contact is such that it could cause bodily harm or is insulting or provocative. Even if no serious injury occurs, the touch itself being harmful or offensive satisfies the definition.

This fits the term described because it focuses on actual contact (not just threats) and on the nature of that contact being either harmful or offensive. The other options point to different concepts—arrest is a police custody action, arson is burning property, and admission is a confession—so they do not describe the prohibited touching that defines battery.