Assault (tort): Acting intentionally and voluntarily causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact.
If a master is in difficulty and reasonable apprehension, his first task is to safeguard life.
The Court noted that "A high standard must be met before a finding of reasonable apprehension of bias can be made.
Among other things, he said, the Government's acknowledgement of its budget problems created a "reasonable apprehension" that more boats would sail without observers.
It agreed with the lower court judge in finding that the "overbreadth" claim failed because the legislature had acted on a "reasonable apprehension of harm."
In Canadian law, a reasonable apprehension of bias is a legal standard for disqualifying judges and administrative decision-makers for bias.
The unanimous Court held that Wells' statements during and after the hearings showed a reasonable apprehension of bias, rendering the decision void.
Mr. Tower has failed to allay many senators' reasonable apprehensions of an untreated drinking problem.
They held that Parliament need not establish harm but only a reasonable apprehension of harm.
Intimidate-The term "intimidate" means to place a person in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm to him- or herself or to another.