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An Analysis Of, and Digested Index to the Criminal Statutes, Alphabetically Arranged, Shewing the Penalties, Forfeitures and Punishments to Be
An Analysis Of and Digested Index to the Criminal Statutes Alphabetically Arranged Shewing the Penalties Forfeitures and Punishments to Be Author:William Robinson Title: An Analysis Of, and Digested Index to the Criminal Statutes, Alphabetically Arranged, Shewing the Penalties, Forfeitures and Punishments to Be Awarded by the Criminal Courts, and by Magistrates Exercising Summary Jurisdiction General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Saunders and Benning ... more »Subjects: Criminal law Law / General Law / Criminal Law / General Law / Criminal Procedure Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 205 THE RIOT ACT. 1 Geo. 1. stat. 2. cap. 5. Twelve persons or more unlawfully assembling, and not dispersing after being commanded by one justice by proclamation. Whereas of late many rebellious riots and tumults have been in divers parts of this kingdom, to the disturbance of the public peace, and the endangering of his majesty's person and government, and the same are yet continued and fomented by persons disaffected to his majesty, presuming so to do, for that the punishments provided by the laws now in being are not adequate to such heinous offences; and by such rioters his majesty and his administration have been most maliciously and falsely traduced, with an intent to raise divisions, and to alienate the affections of the people from his majesty: Therefore for the preventing and suppressing of such riots and tumults, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the offenders therein; be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and of the commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any persons, to the number of twelve (a) or more, being unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the di...« less