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Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 5), whereby if twelve or more persons assemble unlawfully, to the disturbance of the peace, and do not disperse within one hour after proclamation by a justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, or may or, they are felons, punishable by penal servitude for life, originally by death...
Riot
Riot, a tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more assembling of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful. By 13 Car. 2, c. 5, more than ten persons coming to present a petition to the King, and by 57 Geo. 3, c. 19, more than fifty persons near Westminster when Parliament is sitting, constitute a riot. The punishment for riots not falling within the provisions of the (English) Riot Act is fine and imprisonment to which hard labour may, by 3 Geo. 4, c. 114, be superadded.As to riots at elections, see 2 Wm., c. 45, s. 70, and 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 36, s. 8.In any case of riot, or even apprehended riot, all places where intoxicating liquors are sold may be ordered to be closed by justices of the peac...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Riot Damages Act, 1886
Riot Damages Act, 1886 (English) (49 &50 Vict. c. 38), providing compensation, out of the police rate, to any person sustaining damage by riot. From very early times (see the repealed acts scheduled to 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27) compensation of some kind for damage by riot was recoverable from 'hundredors' (see HUNDREDORS), and the consolidating Act (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 31), regulated the procedure for obtaining the compensation, limiting the title to recover to cases where there had been a felonious demolition of property, and giving no compensa-tion for property stolen. A serious riot occurring in the metropolis on February 8th, 1886, and disclosing insufficiency in the law of compensation led very quickly to the Metropolitan Police Compensation Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 11), applicable to the metropolis only and retrospective, and shortly afterwards to the general Riot Damages Act, 1886, by which (1) the police district is substituted for the hundred as the area liable to compensation; (2)...
riot
riot : a disturbance of the peace created by an assemblage of usually three or more people acting with a common purpose and in a violent and tumultuous manner to the terror of the public ;also : the crime of rioting vi : to create or engage in a riot ri·ot·er n ...
Gordon Riots
Gordon Riots, a series of violent 'No Poperty' disturbances which occurred in London in June, 1780, so called after Lord George Gordon, the President of the 'Protestant Association.' The authorities behaved with the utmost imbecility and for four or five nights abandoned the town to the fury of the mob, who amongst other outrages sacked and burned Lord Mansfield's house in Bloomsbury Square and destroyed his library and a priceless collection of manuscripts, many from the pen of Mansfield himself. At length the military were called in and the riots suppressed, but not until an immense amount of damage had been done. Lord George Gordon was indicted for high treason on the charge of levying war against the King. He was defended by Erskine and acquitted for want of evidence; see 21 St. Tr. 485; Lecky's Hist. of England in the Eighteenth Century, ch. xii. For an account of the riots, see Dickens's Barnaby Rudge; and Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly....
Justifiable homicide
Justifiable homicide, the killing of a human creature without incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:-(1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his country.(2) It may be committed for the advancement of public justice, as in the following instances: (a) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) In case of a riot or rebellious assembly, officers endeavouring to disperse the mob are justified in killing them, both at Common Law and by the (English) Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5). (g) Where the prisoners in a gaol assault the galore or officer, and he in his defence kills any of them; it is justifiable for the sake of preventing an escape. (d) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execution of his office, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person fo...
riot gun
riot gun : a small arm used to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death ;esp : a short-barreled shotgun ...
Consolidation Acts (English)
Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these ...
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