I doubt very much that you're an actual attorney. You're way too childish. If you really are a practising lawyer, you are probably neither successful nor have any merit to your name, since all you do is bad-mouth people on the internet. You'd think someone as "knowledgeable" as yourself would be out working at least a few cases. Where's the sarcasm button?
As for the difference, and since you're SO obsessed with the definition even though it has nothing to do with what I said (and I pointed this out in the last post...just another instance of you proving to everyone else you really can't read) here it is, provided by
www.wikipedia.com:
Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, assault is used to refer to the actual violence, while in other jurisdictions (e.g. some in the United States, England and Wales), assault refers only to the threat of violence, while the actual violence is battery. Simple assaults do not involve weapons; aggravated assaults do. (For more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault)
In many common law jurisdictions, the crime of
battery involves an injury or other contact upon the person of another in a manner likely to cause bodily harm. Battery is often broken down into gradations for the purposes of determining the severity of punishment.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(crime))
As a first approximation to the distinction between battery and assault:
1. the overt behavior of an assault might be A advancing upon B by chasing after him and swinging a fist at his head, while
2. that of an act of battery might be A actually striking B.
Happy? Also, you'll notice that not only do attorneys have that sort of information available, but everyone with a dictionary or the internet, so stop acting like you're superior because you can type "I am an attorney" and post it on a message board. Have a lovely evening.