MS · jury_instructions
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 1300
Battery – Definition and Standard of Care
Battery is when one person intentionally and harmfully touches another person without
[his/her] consent or intentionally causes another person to be touched without [his/her] consent.
A person who commits a battery is legally responsible for any [harm/injury/injuries] from the
battery.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 1300 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
69d6334bc56e5260ff337c8ebc9596adb67f7728b8e3a5201a6f9ad7a00b6f01
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.