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Porteous mob, an extraordinary riot and conspiracy which occurred in Edinburgh in 1736. On the occasion of the execution of a man named Wilson Porteous, the Captain of the City Guard, fearing a riot, had given orders to fire on the crowd who had assembled to witness the spectacle, and several persons were killed. For this he was tried and sentenced to death, but on the eve of his execution he was respited by orders from London. This enraged the mob, with whom Porteous was very unpopular, with the result that they rose, stormed the Tolbooth in which Porteous was confined, and themselves hanged him in the Grassmarket. For an account of the inquiries made into the affair by the Crown Counsel, see Scott's Heart of Midlothian, Centen. ed., note D....
Apprentice
Apprentice [fr. apprendre, Fr., to learn], a person bound by indentures of apprenticeship to a tradesman or artificer ,who covenants to teach him his trade or mystery. The master is bound to instruct his apprentice, and to make him master of the art so far as his capacity to learn will permit. If the master die, or become bankrupt, or abandon the trade, the obligation of the apprentice is at an end. Conversely, that the apprentice has done anything incompatible with faithful service, is a just cause of dismissal, Pearce v. Foster, (1886) 17 QBD 536 CA, and see Learoyd v. Brooks, 1891 (1) QB 431. An infant can bind himself by a deed of apprenticeship, Green v. Thompson, 1899 (2) QB 1. With regard to apprentices for the mercantile marine, see The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60). Apprentices are within the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, ss. 3 and 35. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction in many questions between master and apprentice. For instance, the (E...
Beset
Beset. S. 7 of the (English) Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 86), makes it an offence to beset the house or place where another resides or works with a view to compel him to abstain from doing or to do any act which he has a legal right to do or abstain from doing. The effect of this section in the case of a trade dispute has been mitigated by s. 2 of the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 47), which legalizes 'peaceful picketing,' but by the (English) Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. C. 22), s. 3, attending in such numbers or manner as is declared to be unlawful by the Act shall be deemed to be a watching or besetting within s. 7 of the 1875 Act....
Combination
Combination, a banding together of persons for any particular purpose, as of workmen for the purposes of a strike. See (English) Conspiracy and Protection of Property act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 86), by which (s. 3) 'an agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a crime if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.' See TRADE DISPUTE....
Expulsion
Expulsion, is the turning out the legal proprietor of an estate in reality before the termination of the estate, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 57.Is forcing out, Webster American Dictionary, p. 410.In U.K., the House of Commons has the power to expel a member for (a) being in open rebellion, (b) being guilty of forgery, perjury, of frauds and breaches of trusts of misappropriation of public money, of conspiracy to defraud, of fraudulent conversion of property, of corruption in the administration of Justice or in public offices or in the execution of their duties as members of the House, of conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman etc., Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 2001, p. 141.The House of Lords has the right, although absolute, to disqualify a peer from sitting in the House by its sentence when the offender has been tried and found guilty on impeachment. Such disqualifica-tion may be permanent or temporary and is removable ...
Overt
Overt, open. The expression overt act means an act which shows the intention of the party doing it. It is used principally in connection with treason and conspiracy. A treasonable intention is not punish-able unless it is manifested by an overt act. In the same way conspirators may make their criminal purposes clear by some overt act, such as an agreement to further their common design. Overt word means a word the meaning of which is clear and beyond doubt, and see MARKET OVERT....
Picketing
Picketing [fr. piquet Fr., a diminutive of pique a pike]. In its legal sense this word means the stationing of men to watch and accost workmen passing between their homes and place of employment in order thereby to induce them to come out on strike, or to remain on strike. Such proceeding is to some extent legalized by the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 47), s. 2 (1) of which is as follows:-2. (1) It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating informa-tion, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.But the right of picketing is limited to peaceful attendance, and by the (English) Trade Disputes and Trade Union...
Complot
A plotting together a confederacy in some evil design a conspiracy...
Vexatious indictments
Vexatious indictments. In order to prevent these, it was provided, by the (English) Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 17) (repealed), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, ss. 1, 2 (repealed), that no bill of indictment for perjury, conspiracy, indecent assault or certain other misdemeanours therein named, should be presented to a grand jury, unless the prosecutor had been bound over by recognizance to prosecute, or unless the person accused had been committed to or detained in custody, or unless the indictment should be preferred with the written consent of the Attorney-General. The (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (which abolished Grand Juries and amended the law as to presentment of indictments), repealed the whole of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, and s. 1 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867, but not so as to affect any enactment restricting the right to prosecute in parti...
Conspiracy
A combination of people for an evil purpose an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime in concert as treason a plot...
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