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    Assault involves creating fear of an imminent battery, while battery involves a harmful or offensive touching. Some states use assault and battery interchangeably in criminal statutes or refer to sexual assault when punishing a battery. Misrepresentation involves making a false statement that a victim relies on to their detriment, while fraud requires intentionally making a false statement with the intent to deceive and cause damages. The key difference between misrepresentation and fraud is that fraud requires proving intent to deceive.

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    Assault involves creating fear of an imminent battery, while battery involves a harmful or offensive touching. Some states use assault and battery interchangeably in criminal statutes or refer to sexual assault when punishing a battery. Misrepresentation involves making a false statement that a victim relies on to their detriment, while fraud requires intentionally making a false statement with the intent to deceive and cause damages. The key difference between misrepresentation and fraud is that fraud requires proving intent to deceive.

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    Supplemental Terms in Torts

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    Assault involves creating fear of an imminent battery, while battery involves a harmful or offensive touching. Some states use assault and battery interchangeably in criminal statutes or refer to sexual assault when punishing a battery. Misrepresentation involves making a false statement that a victim relies on to their detriment, while fraud requires intentionally making a false statement with the intent to deceive and cause damages. The key difference between misrepresentation and fraud is that fraud requires proving intent to deceive.

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    Supplemental Terms in Torts

    Assault – fear of an imminent battery.

    Battery – a harmful or offensive touching.

    Note that you can have an assault without a battery and a battery without an assault. These are the
    generally accepted legal definitions. However, some criminal statutes use these interchangeably. Some
    sates refer to sexual assault, when they are punishing a battery.

    Misrepresentation – making a false statements or representation that the victim relies on to his or her
    detriment and suffers damages as a result.

    Fraud – intentionally making a false statements or representation that the victim relies on to his or her
    detriment and suffers damages as a result.

    Note that the difference is the intent. The difference between the two is that to prove fraud, you must
    show an intent to give false information, so as a legal matter, it is more difficult to prove.

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