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Full text of the Riot Act (c. 1714 - 1715) Typed in this February 8, 2002 by Jonathan Walther . The source was cap V, volume XIII, pages 142-146 of the "Statutes At Large" series, printed in the year 1764.
5), sometimes called the Riot Act 1714 or the Riot Act 1715, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised local authorities to declare any group of 12 or more people to be unlawfully assembled and order them to disperse or face punitive action.
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18 de sept. de 2013 · When does a gathering of people become a riot? In the United Kingdom it’s when local authorities say so, according to the 1714 Riot Act, the topic of the latest installment of the Documents that Changed the World podcast series.
6 de may. de 2006 · The Riot Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1714, the first year of the reign of George I, and came into effect in August 1715. This was a time of widespread social disturbance, as the preamble describes; the Act sought to put an end to this.
3 de jun. de 2024 · An Act to prevent civil disorder passed by the British Parliament in 1715. The Act made it a serious crime for anyone to refuse to obey the command of lawful authority to disperse; thus the Act imposed upon the civil magistrates the dangerous duty of attending a riot, or a large meeting which might become riotous, and reading the ...
This ‘Riot Act’, flawed in some key respects, was to survive as the primary judicial weapon against public disturbance until its eventual repeal in 1919. The new Act significantly changed the definition of riot and the legal context for its suppression. Keywords: riots, England, Hanoverian, popular disorder, Riot Act, law and order. Subject.
