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Fireworks. The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about in the street, was declared to be a common nuisance by the repealed 9 Wm. 3, c. 7. See also (English) Metropolis Police Act (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 54, and 9 & 10 Vict. c. 25. By 23 & 24 Vict. c. 139, 24 & 35 Vict. c. 130, and 25 & 26 Vict. c. 98, provisions were made for regulating the manufacture, sale, and use of firework, but these have now been repealed, and the law relating to this subject amended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (amended by the Explosives Act, 1923). Any person throwing, casting, or firing any fireworks in or into any highway, street, or public place is liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. (s. 80 of the Act of 1875). And see SQUIBS....
firework
A device for producing a striking display of light or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner as gunpowder sulphur metallic filings and various salts also called a pyrotechnic device The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make when kindled a great variety of figures in fire often variously colored The skyrocket is a common form of firework The art of designing fireworks for purposes of entertainment is called pyrotechnics The name firework is also given to various combustible preparations used in war...
Pyrotechnics
The art of making fireworks the manufacture and use of fireworks pyrotechny...
Pyrotechnic
Of or pertaining to fireworks or the art of forming them...
Pyrotechnist
One skilled in pyrotechny one who manufactures fireworks...
skyrocket
A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies a species of fireworks...
Explosive
Explosive, means gunpowder, introglycerine, nitroglycol, gun-cotton, di-nitro-toluene, tri-nitro-toluene, picric acid, di-nitro-phenol, tri-nitro-resorcinol (styphnic acid), cyclo-trimethylene-tri-nitramine, penta-erythritol-tetranitrate, tetryl, nitro-guanidine, lead azide, lead styphynte, fulminate of mercury or any other metal, diazo-di-nitro-phenol, coloured fires or any other substance whether a single chemical compound or a mixture of substances, whether solid or liquid or gaseous used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or pyrotechnic effect; and includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion-caps, detonators, cartridges, ammuni-tion of all descriptions and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as defined in this clause. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (d)]...
Explosives
Explosives, as to injuries by, see the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 9, 10; the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, ss. 28-30, 64, 65; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.'The (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (38 Vict. c. 17), as amended and extended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 17), regulates the manufacture, keeping, sale, and conveyance of gunpowder and other explosives, and the licensing and management of stores, defining 'explosive' in that Act as meaning:gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powders, fulminate mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;And as including:For signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.The ...
Squibs
Squibs. Casting squibs in any thoroughfare or public place is an offence punishable by fine. See FIREWORKS.In the leading case of Scott v. Shepherd, (1773) 2 Wm Bl 892, 1 Sm LC, it was held that an action of trespass and assault lay against the original thrower of a squib, which after having been thrown about in self-defence by two other persons successively, 'at last put out the plaintiff's eye.'...
Street offences
Street offences. For list of these, see Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police'), s. 28 (applied among ss. 21-29 to urban districts by s. 171 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Public Health')], and s. 54 of the Metropolitan Police Acts of 1839 and 1867 [Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police (Metropolis)']. Thirty kinds of offences are specified in the Act of 1847, and seventeen in the Act of 1839. The offences specified in each Act comprise riding or driving furiously, loitering by common prostitute for prostitution, sliding on ice or snow, disturbance by ringing doorbell, discharging firearms, making bonfires, or setting fire to fireworks, and allowing ferocious dogs to be at large. The Act of 1847 also includes keeping swine, and obstructing footways. The Act of 1839 also includes bill posting on buildings without consent of owner, 'blowing horns or any other noisy instrument for the purpose of calling persons together, or of anno...
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