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riot gun : a small arm used to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death ;esp : a short-barreled shotgun ...
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 From very early times (see the repealed acts scheduled to 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27) compensation of some kind for damage by riot was recoverable from 'hundredors' (see HUNDREDORS), and the consolidating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 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...
Gun
Gun. The Gun Licence Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 57), in which 'gun' includes a firearm of any descrip-tion and an air-gun or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged,' grants to the Crown 'for every licence to be taken out yearly by every person who shall use or carry a gun in the United Kingdom the sum of 10s.' By s. 6 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883, licences expire on July 31st after date. Licences are registered by the inland revenue officers who grant them, and must be produced to such officers on demand. For using a gun without licence except in a dwelling-house, the fine is 10l., but there are six exemptions, being of (1) persons in the naval, military, or volunteer service in discharge of their duty; (2) licensees to kill game; (3) persons carrying such licensee's gun, by his order and for his use, and giving his name and address as well as his own on request of inland revenue officer or constable, or owner or occupier of...
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....
Hydropneumatic gun carriage
A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position It is used with some English and European heavy guns...
Spring guns
Spring guns. The setting of spring guns, etc., calculated to destroy life or inflict grievous bodily harm on a trespasser, is a misdemeanour, Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 31. Damages are recoverable by a person injured by a spring gun, set without notice, from the person setting it, Bird v. Holbrook, (1828) 4 Bing 628....
Gun
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end in which the projectile is placed with an explosive charge such as guncotton or gunpowder behind which is ignited by various means Pistols rifles carbines muskets and fowling pieces are smaller guns for hand use and are called small arms Larger guns are called cannon ordnance fieldpieces carronades howitzers etc See these terms in the Vocabulary...
Gun-cotton
Gun-cotton. As to the making, sale, etc., of gun-cotton, see the Explosives Act, 1875 and tit. EXPLOSIVES....
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