Torts I, Pages 31–32
Cole v. Turner
Nisi Prius, 1704
Rules:
The least touching of another in anger is a battery.
If people touch each other gently in a narrow passage without violence or design of harm, it will not be battery.
If one uses violence against another to force his way in a rude inordinate manner or to a degree that may do hurt, it is a battery.