Code Section

Penal Code - PEN

PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680.4]

  ( Part 1 enacted 1872. )
  

TITLE 8. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON [187 - 248]

  ( Title 8 enacted 1872. )
  

CHAPTER 9. Assault and Battery [240 - 248]
  ( Chapter 9 enacted 1872. )

  
242.  

A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.

(Enacted 1872.)