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Luddite

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

One of a number of riotous persons in England who for six years 1811 17 tried to prevent the use of labor saving machinery by breaking it burning factories etc so called from Ned Lud a half witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames

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