Actual force
What does Actual force mean in American Law?
The definition of Actual force in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
In criminal statutes defining various types of robbery, “actual force” is held to require at least some personal force inflicted on the victim. See constructive force. Also (together with “actual violence”), the term is sometimes used to describe the infringement upon the victim necessary to transform the threatened violence of assault into the completed violence of battery.
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