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Passive resisters, those persons who, as a protest against the expenditure of a local authority in connection with an object of which they disapprove, decline to pay that part of a rate attributable to such expenditure, and by such 'passive resistance' force the local authority to recover the sum withheld by distress and sale or other process. Passive resistance was resorted to especially in connection with the operation of the (English) Education Act, 1902. See R. v. Gillespie, 1904 KB 174.