Well, you know how it is. Legal definitions only matter if you're bothering to apply the law, and the law doesn't get applied to the fuzz.

Legally speaking, any physical contact and sometimes even spitting on someone counts as assault. What you're used to thinking of as assault is, legally speaking, "battery". Hope this helps.

Somehow I get the feeling you like Subterranean Animism. It's just a feeling I've got... also is that evidence of a MamiKosu ship